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[-] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

And you can keep hand waving away the fact that lower precision because of less light is not the primary cause of racial bias in facial recognition systems - it's the fact that the datasets used for training are racially biased.

Yes, it is. The idea that giant corporations "aren't trying" is laughable, and it's a literal guarantee that massively lower quality, noisier inputs will result in a lower quality model with lower quality outputs.

Less photons hitting the sensors matters. A lot.

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