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Re:IBM no longer offers general purpose facial recognition o... by dnautics on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @02:25AM (#23464247)
It's deeper than that. The chemicals used in analog color photography didn't have a dye profile that could capture people of color effectively until the 80s.
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Re:IBM no longer offers general purpose facial recognition o... by sangnoir on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @03:10AM (#23464452)
Even deeper- Kodak only started putting effort to get the process right in the 70s after customers complained about poor color reproduction[1] in wood grain and chocolate

1. https://petapixel.com/2015/09/19/heres-a-look-at-how-color-f...

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Re:IBM no longer offers general purpose facial recognition o... by lallysingh on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @02:37AM (#23464302)
I'm guessing that nobody cared to try.
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Re:IBM no longer offers general purpose facial recognition o... by solarkraft on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @03:12AM (#23464458)
I suspect it to be deeper than that: The relevant people didn't think it was worth it to invest all that much into developing it.
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