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Re:Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of C... by raverbashing on Thursday July 26, 2018 @09:53AM (#17617481)
Thinking of an Onion headline: "This tech sucks" says person trying to use niche technology for the first time without knowing its specificities and limitations.
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Re:Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of C... by adamson on Thursday July 26, 2018 @10:17AM (#17617693)
I guess the question is: do we trust any operator to know the specificities and limitations? I for one wouldn't trust Joe Cop to use something like this with the degree of discretion or understanding of statistical nuance called for here.
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