Why facial recognition has led to false arrests

Re:Why facial recognition has led to false arrests by throwaway4747l on Monday August 24, 2020 @10:48AM (#24261197)

I mean, if your algorithm is accurate 99.9% of the time, and you're using it 24/7 in a country with millions of inhabitants, you should expect tens of thousands of false positives every day. This is why some wet blankets have been strangely skeptical of delegating all responsability to The Algorithm.

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Re:Why facial recognition has led to false arrests by Guest42 on Monday August 24, 2020 @10:55AM (#24261264)

Having spent time in the industry with one of the supposed “top companies”, the accuracy was only good when the model was over-fit on good training data, real world performance wasn’t close nor was it evaluated much.

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Re:Why facial recognition has led to false arrests by coldcode on Monday August 24, 2020 @11:04AM (#24261359)

If only it was as good as 99.9, it's probably amazing if its 50.

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Re:Why facial recognition has led to false arrests by sevencolors on Monday August 24, 2020 @12:19PM (#24262143)

I love how you just handwave away the possibility of destroying someone's life with a false positive. This is an area like automated driving where the error rate needs to be 0 if it's going to be relied upon as truth.

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Re:Why facial recognition has led to false arrests by throwaway4747l on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:13PM (#24262824)

I'm actually agreeing with you, perhaps the sarcastic tone didn't go through.

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