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Amazon's facial recognition tool misidentified 28 members of Congress in ACLU test

Amazon's facial recognition tool misidentified 28 members of Congress in ACLU test

5 years ago
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https://phys.org/news/2018-07-amazon-facial-recognition-tool-misidentified.html

The group used the default "confidence threshold" setting of 80 percent for Rekognition, meaning the test counted a face match at 80 percent certainty or more.

At that setting, the system misidentified 28 members of Congress, a disproportionate number of whom were people of color, tagging them instead as entirely different people who have been arrested for a crime.