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Research Post 3 – Laura Lachin

“color photography was initially optimized for lighter skin tones at the expense of people with darker skin, a bias corrected mainly due to the efforts and funding of furniture manufacturers and chocolate sellers to render darker tones more easily visible in photographs — the better to sell their products” (Nabil Hassein)

This statement struck me because it is horrible that racism in technology was only fixed in order to accommodate objects that businesses were selling. It was basically just a coincidence this fixed the issue that people with darker skin were having with the technology.

 

Facial recognition can be used on other creatures, such as fish, in order to determine which fish is which. (John Oliver)

I found this very interesting because I had never heard of facial recognition being used on anything other than humans. I think this technology could be very useful in some areas, such as wildlife preservation, where animals living in a particular area are tracked. Usually this is done via catch-and-release and the animal is either tagged or attached with a tracking device, but this technology could prevent the need to disturb the animals at all.