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- 2020
- TV-MA
- 1 h 26 m
- 2020
- TV-MA
- 1 h 26 m
Summary An exploration of the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery of racial bias in facial recognition algorithms.
Directed By: Shalini Kantayya
- 2020
- TV-MA
- 1 h 26 m
- 2020
- TV-MA
- 1 h 26 m
Coded Bias
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2.7
Summary An exploration of the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery of racial bias in facial recognition algorithms.
Directed By: Shalini Kantayya
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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86% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
73
86% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
14% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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The best “wake up” call documentary of 2020, a movie filled with warnings discussed by the very smart women sounding those warnings, the very smart women doing something about this very real threat.
Throughout, Coded Bias constantly feels like it's not recounting a saga that’s like grounded science-fiction, it’s making us aware that we're square in the middle of one.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 6 User Ratings
2.7
17% Positive
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17% Mixed
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67% Negative
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4 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 6 User Ratings
2.7
17% Positive
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1 Rating
17% Mixed
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67% Negative
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4 Ratings
Malcolm X championed segregation. Its not overtly clear to me that these film makers yearn for collaborative integration. They seem a bit mad, really.
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Coded Bias is not interested in wallowing in despair for the future, like many tech-infused documentaries like to do. Kantayya wants to inform and inspire change.
San Francisco was the first major U.S. city to forbid the police and other agencies from using facial recognition technology — and the persuasive documentary Coded Bias makes it easy to understand why.
The documentary dives down the rabbit hole to chillingly, comprehensively expose how algorithms can perpetuate bias in often unforeseen and unjust ways.
The most cleareyed of several recent documentaries about the perils of Big Tech (“The Great Hack,” “The Social Dilemma”), Coded Bias tackles its sprawling subject by zeroing in empathetically on the human costs.
The movie as a whole tends to circle the same points, becoming less bracing the longer it runs. Still, for the most part, Coded Bias takes something huge and scary and breaks it down into small, easily understood morality tales, featuring everyday heroes fighting to save our future.
This right here is a perfect example of the leftist-communist ideology. You have people who don't know a thing about the subject they provide opinions on, and they proceed with such certainty (and arrogance) to pass it off as "fact"; with the intent to place blame, destroy reputation, or generate hate towards another race, class, or gender. This documentary is made by mentally ill people and they need to seek help. They see race and racism in everything. This is an example of the way they think: if a black man and a white man both walk into a store at the same time, and if the clerk helps the black man first, then the clerk is racist because he doesn't trust the black man to walk around the store by himself. However, if the clerk helps the white man, then he's racist because he sees the black man as a second-class citizen. This is the same ideology that produced this documentary. Again, only an ill mind could come up with such an argument and waste money producing such garbage.
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Terrible film, full of bad information and misleading perspectives. Toxic to anyone in tech.
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Production Company
7th Empire Media,
Chicken And Egg Pictures,
Ford Foundation - Just Films,
ITVS International,
Women Make Movies
Release Date Nov 11, 2020
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating TV-MA
Genres
Awards
Calgary International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Hamptons International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
