Iphone X is racist

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Vonhelmet said:
But you didn’t set out talking about that problem, you set out with a trashy click bait title and now you’re on damage control trying to get back to a real issue.
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nope I set out in the OP talking about that problem, you've again failed to read the thread

dowie said:
While the story is slightly amusing as it plays off a well known stereotype I do wonder if Apple have perhaps rather arrogantly neglected to test this technology thoroughly on Asian faces... I mean white people are probably a minority as far as customers across the globe are concerned but I'd wager that a disproportionate number of white faces were used in testing.
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as for the thread title, see the similar titles on the time article about blinking faces or the youtube clip posted in my previous post...
 
dowie said:
No it is based on there having been problems in the past with tech companies clearly not testing sufficiently on Asian faces, perhaps you're ignorant of this but for example several years ago we had the blinking problem with face recognition prompting this Time article entitled:

"Are Face-Detection cameras racist?"
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You need to stop reading clickbait from the echo chambers and read up on Betteridge's Law instead. ;)
 
dowie said:
mostly based on ignorance of people re: these issues in tech firms:
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It's not just ignorance; it's also technically harder to do recognition and identification on black faces because of the lower contrast. There's also a problem that if you tune it for one facial morphology, it may make it less sensitive for others.

Buy, yeah, it's mostly neglect.
 
Mr Jack said:
It's not just ignorance; it's also technically harder to do recognition and identification on black faces because of the lower contrast. There's also a problem that if you tune it for one facial morphology, it may make it less sensitive for others.

Buy, yeah, it's mostly neglect.
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I'm not disputing that it is harder - my comment re: ignorance relates to posts such as this:

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/31433211/

which if the poster was aware that there have been a history of tech issues surrounding non-white faces they'd perhaps not be quite so baffled by that opinion/speculation
 
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