Apple face-recognition blamed by New York teen for false arrest

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The article doesn't say, but is the teen black?

Why does that matter?

Because some real life systems are unintentionally racist, provide more precise results for light skinned people.

That's not racist. The Wikipedia definition is the belief in the superiority of another [0], which this doesn't fit.

Has nobody considered that blacks are a minority and therefore there is less data available for training or testing? This might always be the case, simply because there are fewer in America (where Apple designs it's phones).

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

Biased systems != racist.

Biased systems are just WRONG.

His name (Ousmane Bah) sounds African in origin.

This of course means nothing as I'm no clairvoyant, but we know face recognition tends to favour some colours over others.

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