A reminder that the Detroit police department is still running hopelessly flawed facial recognition software against a database of mugshots built up over generations of racially biased policing.
They keep arresting the wrong people — and the victims are always Black.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html
Carl T. Bergstrom /
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2023-08-06 21:09:51
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