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The title is misleading. Although I get that this is dangerous, and trained on the right (wrong?...) dataset it could be an automatic racial profiler. The paper is written by Chinese researchers from Chinese Universities, and all of the pictures shown of people in the dataset appear to be Chinese or at least "Asian" race in American racial categories. This makes it hard to assume their technique will automatically have racial bias, although I imagine running it on a set of US criminals could disproportionately flag black or latino people as criminals. The core idea of classifying people as criminals based on facial structure is equally gross without the racial component though.

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I think we're just stuck in this little echo chamber as there's no way this post will catch any interest 4 hours later with only 7 points, which is precisely what I suspect the person who changed the title was aiming for. :(