Have you seen cops? They’ll use any excuse to lock someone up, they’re not going to ‘take the risk of letting a suspect go’.

Have you seen the false positives by police? They think all black people look alike too.

I don’t think you understand how it works. So the process is simple. a crime happens. the cops are called, they collect whatever surveillance video they can get, or maybe it was a cell phone camera, or something. they load it up to the AI software, which then runs it against government databases (probably driver’s license photos) and maybe images on social media.

it was the initial identification that was off- and should have been entirely avoidable here: the guy lived in Georgia, and the warrant issued in Louisiana. or, you know. Three states away. It disproportionately impacts black people because the training data used was mostly with white people.

checking to see that they match the provided identification doesn’t work because they never had a reliable ID to begin with. Chances are, any video of photos uploaded to get an id is going to be dogshit. Security camera DVR’s usually prioritize holding for about 30 days, which either requires a shit load of storage or a whole lot of compression. And this assumes the cameras are even capable of 4k. or 1080p or 720p. and then you got problems like dust and dirt (especially if it’s outside,) obscuring the camera, or bad lighting, or whatever it is happening too far away.

most times, you’re really only going to be able to get a general description off security cameras “White male with brown hair and scruffy beard and about five-six”. and that’s on a good system. shitty systems set up in the 80’s? that’s going to be more like… “it was a person.”

Because the entire point of AI is to remove human labor from the equation.

Facial recognition and AI are way to easy to abuse. It significantly out ways the benefits. This technology should be totally banned.

Especially AI. It will allow unprecedented and appalling levels of inequality. Like walled ghettos. Government AI scares the hell out of me

And being able to hide the usage by saying “a reliable informant …” should be criminal

The only way they will assist law enforcement in practice is giving the police and excuse to detain the wrong people.

They should only be used if they are open source, and viewable by the public to be checked for biases and bugs. Unfortunately, they are mostly black box technology made by companies.

Everyone was warning us this was going on in China.

Funny how nobody holds the US government to the same standard as China’s. Probably because there’s a trade war going on and these fools don’t realize how much propaganda they’ve sucked up to support it.

Although this is likely from crawling, which would apply to any federated social media too once it becomes large enough to be on their radar.