After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives

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Who remembers the HP computer that was unable to identify black people? One of my favorite "oooph, that's not a good look" tech fails of all time. At least the people in that video were having a good laugh about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM

Holy hell, that was 13 years ago.

More recently, there was also Google Photos mistaking a photo of a black couple as "gorillas", back in 2015.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33347866

On a funnier note, there was also the AI tool turning a pixelated photo of Barack Obama into that of a white man.

https://www.theverge.com/21298762/face-depixelizer-ai-machine-learning-tool-pulse-stylegan-obama-bias