Waldo Jaquith on Nostr: Why doesn’t Login.gov use facial recognition? Because the technology remains ...
Why doesn’t Login.gov use facial recognition?
Because the technology remains phenomenally racist. After eight years of trying, neither Google nor Apple’s image recognition software can reliably distinguish gorillas from Black humans, because their training data centers white people. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/technology/ai-photo-labels-google-apple.html?unlocked_article_code=bJ32YVV12cUq6R_KfqG7Aaf2b9buir25bv7dbxH2-WaYa_CA5tUVugpwPJIcGgU2KRLilWnt0OYH5ucVBfTP9luKLCdObeS-rGCSVSbTROdBEfLTQqg8QxyBfTQMU_6xaVCjYunxhgsBaTfw7d7_OToO20D5CL2iFLl_eRulPsGIi9caXiRlFdCoeBodjbXZ-fs2brSTwXkcTOxso1pQr6UZKem4Wj-qUX9vrq5Rzmodp5i4id1GrEHpv_Li7MJcbeT4EyWcgxBeX1t3gyJ0MjMTxON6HtWjBeyxt67BifOthsyfFeb-GKI2z5vP22J4tv2VUSflktVAi-t3MBPb1X9fsYScZCmk&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Because the technology remains phenomenally racist. After eight years of trying, neither Google nor Apple’s image recognition software can reliably distinguish gorillas from Black humans, because their training data centers white people. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/technology/ai-photo-labels-google-apple.html?unlocked_article_code=bJ32YVV12cUq6R_KfqG7Aaf2b9buir25bv7dbxH2-WaYa_CA5tUVugpwPJIcGgU2KRLilWnt0OYH5ucVBfTP9luKLCdObeS-rGCSVSbTROdBEfLTQqg8QxyBfTQMU_6xaVCjYunxhgsBaTfw7d7_OToO20D5CL2iFLl_eRulPsGIi9caXiRlFdCoeBodjbXZ-fs2brSTwXkcTOxso1pQr6UZKem4Wj-qUX9vrq5Rzmodp5i4id1GrEHpv_Li7MJcbeT4EyWcgxBeX1t3gyJ0MjMTxON6HtWjBeyxt67BifOthsyfFeb-GKI2z5vP22J4tv2VUSflktVAi-t3MBPb1X9fsYScZCmk&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare