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After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives (lailluminator.com)
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[–] T156@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More recently, there was also Google Photos mistaking a photo of a black couple as "gorillas", back in 2015.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33347866

On a funnier note, there was also the AI tool turning a pixelated photo of Barack Obama into that of a white man.

https://www.theverge.com/21298762/face-depixelizer-ai-machine-learning-tool-pulse-stylegan-obama-bias

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Haha. He looks like Mike Nelson.