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Re:He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to ... by Scoundreller on Monday December 28, 2020 @04:49PM (#25563636)
That's fine, but the system shouldn't be dialed up to accept more false positive matches, but it sounds like it is being so.
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Re:He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to ... by pmiller2 on Monday December 28, 2020 @04:51PM (#25563656)
Oh, I agree 100%. I'm just saying that maybe the quality of input to the algorithms leaves something to be desired.

Or, maybe the fact that there are relatively few black people in tech means that the developers of these algorithms don't even notice that there's a bias to correct for, whether it's in the input or not.

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