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bradbikes t1_j19apxj wrote

Reply to comment by sanspoint_ in James Dolan’s facial ID tech snags another lawyer who says he was booted from Knicks game by PichuLovy

Yep. You have to be extremely careful in your curation of the training sets for ai algorithms and companies often aren't because it costs more. And there's very little transparency about it.

Example one company basically just uploaded pictures labeled from the Internet to a predictive ai to help find criminals. The problem being guess which group of people is massively overrepresented with online pictures labeled 'criminal'.

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sanspoint_ t1_j19s03a wrote

> guess which group of people is massively overrepresented with online pictures labeled 'criminal'.

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say... black men?

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bradbikes t1_j1aci5p wrote

Bingo. There were others that had like 100% accuracy with white people but couldn't differentiate between black people causing multiple false arrests.

And all of this is assuming a perfect facial recognition system would even be considered a good idea in a free society, something a lot of people would dispute I think.

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