Some airport travelers, including a U.S. senator, are having trouble saying no to security technology that’s supposed to be voluntary.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    1 year ago

    Your face in a billion person database as an identification factor is crap.

    Scanning your face to Get in your iPhone is a no-brainer. The chances of someone having a false positive match against the people who might get your phone are slim. But when *they’re searching your face against a billion people for no fly targets… Let’s just say *there are profiling problems even in digital AI.

    Then there’s the fact that very dark-skinned people end up having a lot of false positives and face recognition.

    You might have walked past 100 cameras to get to the TSA but none of those cameras were wired up directly to a task force that wants to handcuff you to a chair if you maybe look kind of like someone who did something bad once.

    edit: voice dictate corrections

    • Blamemeta@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, low contrast is a bitch for ai. Darker skin folks are going to have problems with AI as it is currently. Hopefully, devs will figure it out soon.

        • Blamemeta@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          1 year ago

          Jepp?

          Also not just light skinned people, pretty much anything with high contrast. Goes for actual eyes too, thats why text is often black on white, or white on black.