Is it plausible that cameras have more trouble with dark skin because of reduced contrast of facial features? Or is that already studied and discarded, and this is just a training set problem?
No consequences, profit-driven company, metric-driven agencies, nobody cared.
Constructing a modern-day criminal justice system from the ashes of the Bad Old Days is going to be a project for our generation or the next or the next after that, but it probably requires burning things to the ground.
In the meantime: Most of the liberal democratic ideals you and I were raised on with regard to criminal justice were from academia musing on what should be, or from copaganda television shows lying about what is. They live in our heads - if you want them to be real, you have to make them real.
This would all be because either they didn't care or they didn't realize they should care. Which is to say, I agree with you and the problem you touched on is far more pervasive and effects more people than just the legal system and we need to start doing a better job addressing it.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/04/16/303721251...
yes, it is also a training set problem. training on real-world data will reproduce racial bias, because racial bias exists in the world. racism in, racism out.
but the more direct cause of this kind of thing is the racism of the police using these tools, the states deploying these tools, and the private enterprises making these tools.
That assumes that all disparities of this kind are due to racism but the fact remains that the disparities in the racial description of arrests matches that of descriptions given by victims when they report crime. Could an entire nation including black people (who are proportionally more likely to be victims that other races) be in on the conspiracy?
Let's focus on trying to avoid innocent people being victimised, either through crime or misapprehension, than making the assumption of ill intent where there is none.
Utter nonsense. Shadow contrast is lower with darker skin. It’s physics, no matter how much you want to see racism.
Anyone who's ever done photography knows this.
Dark skin requires good quality lighting for visible facial features.
Matter of physics.
I agree that “the most qualified person for the job should be hired”, we just dont agree when I point out those qualifications have nothing to do with prior professional pedigree or academic name branding, as opposed to having a different background since that would be more useful here to say “hey wait a minute this product doesnt work”
sparing all of us from the debate and just having better technology