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Why facial recognition software has trouble recognizing people of color
Facial recognition software has made huge advancements in accuracy, but it has a long way to go — specifically when it comes to recognizing women and people of color. Commercially available software can tell the gender of a person using a photograph. But according to a new study from Joy Buolamwini, of the MIT Media Lab, that software is correct 99 percent of the time when it’s looking at a white male and less than half as accurate when looking at a darker-skinned female.
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