so it's 2016 and phrenology is apparently still a thinghttps://twitter.com/mayhewsw/status/799370839389040640 …
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Replying to @FioraAeterna
Did you see that analysis someone did? The algorithm "works" by telling the difference between personal photos and mugshots
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Replying to @PittLabs @FioraAeterna
quoting the paper: "We stress that the criminal face images in Sc are normal ID photos not police mugshots."
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however, looking at figure 1 I think it is pretty obvious what kind of biases the algorithm is learning.
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e.g. all non-criminals in this figure wear clean white shirts. None of the criminals do.
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correction: they seem to crop the part of the image in which the shirt is visible. Should have read further.. :)
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imo this should be reported as: "machine learning reveals bias in policing", not machine can police looking at faces
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