Facial analysis AI as social pseudotechnology
Päivi Seppälä & @ilmarihirvonen.bsky.social
> pseudotechnology [...] is not justified that it could achieve its purpose better than random chance [or] it is not justified that this happens through the features claimed to be crucial for its functioning
Facial analysis AI applications have recently come under heavy criticism. They have been accused, for instance, of being discriminative, racist, and even pseudoscientific. In this paper, we assess the...
