[shakna]

> But nobody knows why the issue occurs

Sure we do. Photography itself has a racial bias. [0] Different skin tones produce different levels of detail, and it has been an uphill battle to be able to capture those details since the advent of photography.

So long as facial recognition relies on photography, and photography is flawed, then every dataset is biased. Which will exacerbate the bias of the AI, which already has its own set of problems from where those datasets are formed.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/lens/sarah-lewis-racial-b...