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by rflrob 1782 days ago
In this case, however, there is evidently prior research using humans judging the faces that shows similar results. There definitely are all kinds of biases that could creep in from using facial recognition software, but a well designed study will attempt to quantify and control for those biases.

I definitely agree that the idea that software eliminates bias is laughable. Swaps it for another, hopefully less extreme set of biases doesn’t draw as many clicks, though.

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>prior research using humans judging the faces that shows similar results

I always assumed that was generally what the models were trained from, are they not? Agree though that ai will just replicate the bias in the training data, which is why its important to have "bias free" data. Or at least as much as such a thing exists.

I think he meant humans judging Olympic medalists specifically.