https://theintercept.com/2020/07/14/microsoft-police-state-mass-surveillance-facial-recognition/


Sketchy recognition: https://diversions.constantvzw.org/vandalist/

*From Julie & Cristina:

About ImageNet roulette, it has been indeed very frustrating to see the artists introducing it as a fun viral face app and promoting it with the positive labels they got while "But-ing" BAME people's comments on the violence of the strategy deployed. There is also a lot to say about how it missed its claimed goal (bringing awareness) by re-creating blindness, and even amusement, for the ones labeled with inoffensive qualifiers. 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/imagenet-roulette-asian-racist-slur-selfie

Linking this to the IBM event to the politics of recognition seems like a good plan. Witnessing the revamping of phrenologist / racist sciences prompted by AI fueled biometrics over the past few years has also been quite worrying. These ideas are actually very much alive and seem well accommodated by the academic field. Maybe that would be something to discuss together.

ps : maybe you've heard about MIT's Tinyimage? 
/"Thanks to MIT's cavalier approach when assembling its training set, though, these systems may also label women as whores or bitches, and Black and Asian people with derogatory language."/ 
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/01/mit_dataset_removed/
After the whole ImageNet debacle it seems like no one thought that perhaps they should stop using WordNet based image datasets... 

pps: 
At least it seems like a lot of datasets have been retired in the last few years: 
- HRT Transgender dataset (2017) 
- MS-Celeb (2019) *partial 
- Duke MTMC (2019) 
- Unconstrained College Students (2019) 
- UMD Faces (2019) 
- Brainwash (2019) 
- Oxford Town Centre (2020) 
- TinyImages (2020) 

*Some other options/ideas:

Mutale Nkonde https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/mutale-nkonde
https://hjaap.hkspublications.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2020/05/Final-PDF-for-Website.pdf#page=35

https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/becoming-digital/248073/as-if/
Ramon Amaro

https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1274850681162043392

notes conversation Cristina + Julie https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/diversions-publication

undoing or redoing recognition:

-> apologizing
-> repairing
-> retracting
-> correcting
-> abolishing
-> restitution
-> reproduction