Posted on 02/22/2019 11:11:53 AM PST by Trump20162020
Facial recognition software is a billion dollar industry, with Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook developing systems, some of which have been sold to governments and private companies. Those systems are a nightmare for various reasons—some systems have, for example, been shown to misidentify black people in criminal databases while others have been unable to see black faces at all.
The problems can be severe for transgender and nonbinary people because most facial recognition software is programmed to sort people into two groups—male or female. Because these systems aren’t designed with transgender and gender nonconforming people in mind, something as common as catching a flight can become a complicated nightmare. It’s a problem that will only get worse as the TSA moves to a full biometric system at all airports and facial recognition technology spreads.
These biases programmed into facial recognition software means that transgender and gender nonconforming people may not be able to use facial recognition advancements that are at least nominally intended to make people’s lives easier, and, perhaps more importantly, may be unfairly targeted, discriminated against, misgendered, or otherwise misidentified by the creeping surveillance state's facial recognition software.
(Excerpt) Read more at motherboard.vice.com ...
Excellent. No need for anyone to shoot these things. The snoopy spy technology will be rendered powerless by its own operators who are determined to fix it.
*trump*
It still needs to shave or take off the dress.
Light waves are bigoted!
The software is fine, obviously.
It’s the sickos that have the problems.
Yes, sickos.
We’re talking 51 cards short of a full deck.
A burger and fries short of a happy meal.
Face up to it, transies - you’ve got problems.
And it’s up to you to get your head (whatever little there is in it) straight.
Nope, no one wants to pick on you. They do not hate you. They just want you to get a room and leave the rest of us the fffff alone.
Captain Obvious out.
The computer software uses the Advanced Body Proportions of Human Anatomy Fundamentals which comes back as Michael every time.
It might not be good a gender identification, but it can identify who you are, and that’s its purpose.
By “misgenders”, the author means “correctly deduces their biological sex”.
“No, you stupid computer - I’m telling you that 2+2=5!”
$100,000 to go from a decent looking man to a homely woman... what a bargain!
I haven’t read whole article, but it starts out stupidly. Yeah, older software followed the scientific facts about sex. I have yet to read any form asking me for my gender. Their complaints about not recognizing “gender” will follow the route of worries about the shutdown of computer systems on January 1, 2000.
Solution: get a DNA test and live with the results, knowing that God determined your gender at conception and you can't change it.
But this will mean lawsuits, and I really wish the media wouldn't abet such claims.
Unfortunately, you can't expect the media to behave responsibly.
These biases programmed into facial recognition software ..”
They’re not biases, they’re REALITY!
Interesting, thanks.
And after all that pain and expense, their sex is still the same. I doesn’t change.
Good Lord, another “reason” for the terminally offended to sue.
Maybe A.I. really is already smarter than us.
bkmk
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