Amazon's face detection API was 145% more likely to make a face detection error for the oldest people, as opposed to younger people. The overall error rate for lighter and darken skin types was 8.5 and 9.7. Facebook apologizes after AI puts, quote, primates label on video of black men. And this is very similar to the gorillas tagging that we had seen before, I think with Google.
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