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> This has already led to numerous troubles in the applications for loans, job evaluation, criminal matters and so on.

Which I'm arguing about elsewhere... but demanding that university research about upscaling a face to be perfect to publish is a little much.

> . But success isn't a success when the dataset isn't representative and datasets used by academics as a rule are not representative

Yup, so, academics should never research this stuff or publish? That certainly is an ... interesting ... recipe for progress. And research progress is one of those things that could help us ultimately address some of these issues, because as the original argument makes clear: improving the quality of datasets is not enough.



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