A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence

Re:A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged o... by emodendroket on Sunday August 22, 2021 @11:11AM (#28266098)

If manual reclassification is routine then what does that say about the AI?

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Re:A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged o... by CrazyStat on Sunday August 22, 2021 @11:13AM (#28266118)

That it doesn't give the answers the customers (police and prosecutors) want.

Which is mostly unrelated to whether or not it's accurate.

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Re:A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged o... by emodendroket on Sunday August 22, 2021 @11:15AM (#28266133)

I think it’s related. If it is good enough to put someone in jail there shouldn’t be any kind of need for manual overrides at all.

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Re:A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged o... by CrazyStat on Sunday August 22, 2021 @02:50PM (#28268308)

"Good" in what sense? Police and prosecutors don't necessarily care about their evidence being good in the sense of accurate. It just needs to convince a jury.

There is a very, very, very long history of police and prosecutors using bad (in the sense of accuracy) evidence to put people in jail.

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Re:A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged o... by emodendroket on Sunday August 22, 2021 @03:52PM (#28268925)

I’m making a normative claim. Obviously it does not describe reality.

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