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This would not be the first case in which facial recognition software, and the AI behind it, has had trouble recognizing non-white faces.



In 2015, Google Photos accidentally tagged a photo of two African-Americans as gorillas, while in 2009, had trouble recognizing and tracking black faces – but no problem with white faces. That same year, Nikon’s camera software was caught mislabeling an Asian face as blinking.

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