Racist Facial Recognition AI Back on the Menu After Monstrous Rise in Crime

Your choices are cops that hate black people and want to kill them all, or robots who hate black people and want to kill them all.

No matter what, anyone on the planet who is in law enforcement hates black people. They hate the color of their skin.

Reuters:

Facial recognition is making a comeback in the United States as bans to thwart the technology and curb racial bias in policing come under threat amid a surge in crime and increased lobbying from developers.

Virginia in July will eliminate its prohibition on local police use of facial recognition a year after approving it, and California and the city of New Orleans as soon as this month could be next to hit the undo button.

Homicide reports in New Orleans rose 67% over the last two years compared with the pair before, and police say they need every possible tool.

“Technology is needed to solve these crimes and to hold individuals accountable,” police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson told reporters as he called on the city council to repeal a ban that went into effect last year.

Efforts to get bans in place are meeting resistance in jurisdictions big and small from New York and Colorado to West Lafayette, Indiana. Even Vermont, the last state left with a near-100% ban against police facial-recognition use, chipped away at its law last year to allow for investigating child sex crimes.

From 2019 through 2021, about two dozen U.S. state or local governments passed laws restricting facial recognition. Studies had found the technology less effective in identifying Black people, and the anti-police Black Lives Matter protests gave the arguments momentum.

But ongoing research by the federal government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has shown significant industrywide progress in accuracy. And Department of Homeland Security testing published last month found little variation in accuracy across skin tone and gender.

“There is growing interest in policy approaches that address concerns about the technology while ensuring it is used in a bounded, accurate and nondiscriminatory way that benefits communities,” said Jake Parker, senior director of government relations at the lobbying group Security Industry Association.

Though the recent studies have eased lawmakers’ reservations, debate is ongoing. The General Services Administration, which oversees federal contractors, said in a report released last month that major facial recognition tools disproportionately failed to match African Americans in its tests. The agency did not respond to requests to provide details about the testing.

Facial recognition will be reviewed by the president’s new National AI Advisory Committee, which last week began forming a subgroup tasked with studying its use in policing.

California in 2019 banned police from using facial recognition on mobile devices such as body-worn cameras. But the prohibition expires on Jan. 1 because of a provision state senators added.

Now, news reports about rising retail theft and smash-and-grab robberies have captured lawmakers’ attention, said Jennifer Jones, a staff attorney for ACLU of Northern California.

As a result, ACLU has faced resistance from law enforcement to make the ban permanent.

People talk about what facial recognition AI means for black people, but the real question no one is asking is what law enforcement using facial recognition technology means for women and makeup. Are we going to ban makeup so that the facial recognition AI works correctly?

Have you seen what the Blade Runner 2049 chick looks like with slightly less makeup?

A bit different than what she looks like on screen.

Enough difference to fool an evil, nigger-hating robot?

Clearly. The robots are so stupid and ignorant, they literally hate people for their skin. These robots are inbred trailer trash. They’re not smart.

For this AI to work, you’d have to ban makeup.

On the other hand, if we’d rather not have the government tracking our every move, we should tell women that facial recognition software means the end of makeup, and let them do the protesting.

You think they’re mad about the baby killing thing? Telling them they can’t wear their demon-masks will launch them into orbit.