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[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 year ago (25 children)

14 out of 15 requests were of black people. Facial recognition is notoriously bad with darker skin tones.

Racial Discrimination in Face Recognition Technology https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/racial-discrimination-in-face-recognition-technology/

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Discrimination is the wrong word. Technology has no morals or sense of justice. It is bias in the data that developers should have accounted for.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It can be an imported bias/descrimination. I still think that words fair.

Do you have a more accurate word?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I already said it: bias. It's a common problem with LLMs and other machine learning models that model engineers need to watch out for.

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