[highlight]From SMH
[url]www.smh.com.au[/url][/highlight]
[quote] It may not matter if you're black or white but to the webcams built into HP's computers, skin colour is everything.
A viral video that has notched up almost 90,000 hits on YouTube claims the world's largest PC maker is selling "racist" computers.
The facial tracking software used on its newest PCs, which allows the webcam to automatically follow users if they move around during video chat sessions, appears to be incapable of detecting people with dark skin.
In the video, Desi, an African-American, demonstrates the issue with Wanda, a white colleague. The technology recognises Wanda with ease.
"I think my blackness is interfering with the computer's ability to follow me," Desi says in the clip.
"As you can see the camera is panning to show Wanda's face, it's following her around, but as soon as my blackness enters the frame ... it stops."
HP acknowledged the problem in a post on its blog.
Tony Welch, social media strategist in HP's PC division, said the company was investigating the issue.
"The technology we use is built on standard algorithms that measure the difference in intensity of contrast between the eyes and the upper cheek and nose," Welch wrote.
"We believe that the camera might have difficulty 'seeing' contrast in conditions where there is insufficient foreground lighting."
Some commenters have questioned the lighting defence, saying both faces in the clip are clearly visible and lit up by fluorescent lights.
"I'm going on record, and I'm saying it: Hewlett Packard computers are racist. And the worst part is I bought one for Christmas," Desi says in the video.
The issue comes four months after Microsoft apologised for altering a photo on its website to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture.
The photo on the company's US website showed two men, one Asian and one black, and a white woman seated at a conference table.
But on the website of Microsoft's Polish business unit, the black man's head was replaced with that of a white man. The color of his hand remained unchanged.[/quote]
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I am with HP here, it is hard to see black on black.
I like how a technical issue is automatically labeled as "racist." It was probably just poor programming on the part of HP.
That video made me lol hard.
his blackness
Almost forgot
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM[/media]
[QUOTE=Doug52392;19114401]I like how a technical issue is automatically labeled as "racist." It was probably just poor programming on the part of HP.[/QUOTE]
I like how a parody video is automatically labeled as "serious." The intellectual humour was probably just poorly understood by this poster.
[QUOTE=TropicalV2;19114478]I like how a parody video is automatically labeled as "serious." The intellectual humour was probably just poorly understood by this poster.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it's lovely how seriously presented it is when he clearly takes it with a big spoonful of humor. Just some really bad programming going on there, but his face really was dark, but when it couldn't even recognize him when he was up close it's quite clear that the skin colour has a big word in it.
Whats great is if you listen to the guy, he's laughing and smiling half the time. Its not like he was like "Damn those KKK Nazi's at HP. They're burning crosses at their corporate headquarters. Black powah!"
They're laughing, they just find it funny.
[QUOTE=Doug52392;19114401]I like how a technical issue is automatically labeled as "racist." It was probably just poor programming on the part of HP.[/QUOTE]
You didn't get the joke did you?
Hahahaha.
cause it's racist to have difficulties to get contrast from black color on black :Dawkins102:
black people should stop yelling RACIST everywhere, jesus H christ, they are as equal as everyone (in the law) today.
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Do us all a favor and watch the fucking video :downs:
It was obvious humor.
[QUOTE=ColinSSX;19116072]Do us all a favor and watch the fucking video :downs:[/QUOTE]
Yes, Please do be4 Commenting,
i think we should paint someone blue and try it,
I thought this was obvious seeing as they were laughing the whole time, he referred to himself as negro, used the term blackness, and said a computer is racist.
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;19116158]I thought this was obvious seeing as they were laughing the whole time, he referred to himself as negro, used the term blackness, and said a computer is racist.[/QUOTE]
Its okay to say thoes words, Because he is black and words like "Negro" referrer to black people, And he is black, So hes being racist to himself because he used that word so its okay
Que white nerds coming in saying shit about black people.
[QUOTE=shipkiller;19115959]cause it's racist to have difficulties to get contrast from black color on black :Dawkins102:
black people should stop yelling RACIST everywhere, jesus H christ, they are as equal as everyone (in the law) today.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://imgkk.com/i/LyxNbC.gif[/img]
Times never change
[QUOTE=thisispain;19116350]Que white nerds coming in saying shit about black people.[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09XQLmBNrCo[/media]
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[QUOTE=ashxu;19116372][img]http://imgkk.com/i/LyxNbC.gif[/img]
Times never change[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of bill cosby
[QUOTE=ashxu;19116372][img]http://imgkk.com/i/LyxNbC.gif[/img]
Times never change[/QUOTE]
Wow, that's a very dumb thing to say.
I watched the video, is there something I'm not getting?
I thought the comment about it being racist was a joke.
[QUOTE=breakyourfac;19114356]I am with HP here, it is hard to see black on black.[/QUOTE]
Watch the video asshole
[img]http://image-bb.com/out.php/i2779_Untitled2.jpg[/img]
He seemed happy in the video I watched.
Smart humor is funny.
[QUOTE=Sharp;19117620][img]http://image-bb.com/out.php/i2779_Untitled2.jpg[/img]
He seemed happy in the video I watched.[/QUOTE]
Heh,
:fuckoff:
So? Shitty programming is what led to this mess, why else?
So what if the sony camera doesn't detect that asian people's eyes are open...?
Actually that shit is pretty racist.
Also, is 'blackness' a word?
[quote=COX NOOS][QUOTE=Desi;19114285]My blackness is interfering with the computer.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Desi;19114285]My blackness is interfering[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Desi;19114285]My blackness[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Desi;19114285]blackness[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Desi;19114285]computer[/QUOTE]
:smug:[/quote]
Damn my Blackness!
But that is pretty funny.
Hilarious
I bet someone is gonna sue HP for it or something...
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