ABSTRACT
Computers can also recognize a face, in order to unlock a phone or identify criminals and suspects as seen by surveillance cameras. But algorithmic facial identification by police is now under fire because it is less accurate for black faces than white ones, causing biased false arrests or worse. Several Labocine films treat facial recognition, both the algorithmic and human kinds. Slutsky underlines the power of faces by pointing out that the peoples see them in nonhuman objects like the man in the moon, and the remarkable fact that even with radically scrambled features as in a Picasso painting. Algorithmic facial recognition as seen in the science fiction world of Slaughterbots, however, and in our real world of policing, seems to offer more costs than benefits.
