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0 pointsmzw_mzw9y ago0 comments

If some corporation did want to be racist (which has not been established), they'd hardly need fancy face-analysis technology to do it. They could, you know, just look at the applicants.

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gaius9y ago

Blatant old-fashioned racism would be very obvious - new fangled data science racism is more insidious.

mzw_mzwOP9y ago

How is a computer looking at the applicant data, including their faces, more insidious than humans looking at it? In either case the company could claim they were totally not paying attention to skin color.

gaius9y ago

You should check out the history of IQ testing particularly in the US. On paper, it seemed to be a perfectly objective way to determine an individual's intelligence. But correlating the data, it was later shown to disadvantage blacks and that is why IQ testing for jobs is now illegal.

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0 pointsmzw_mzw9y ago0 comments

If some corporation did want to be racist (which has not been established), they'd hardly need fancy face-analysis technology to do it. They could, you know, just look at the applicants.

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gaius9y ago

Blatant old-fashioned racism would be very obvious - new fangled data science racism is more insidious.

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