Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban

Re:Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban by sobellian on Monday May 20, 2024 @03:13PM (#40419044)

You will get false positives with eyewitness identification as well. But if you only use one identification method you'd never know if another would disagree.

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Re:Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban by Terr_ on Monday May 20, 2024 @03:28PM (#40419222)

> But if you only use one identification method

I'd like to emphasize that this is arguably the same method (facial similarity) being attempted twice, rather than two different and independent methods. While a marginal improvement, each attempt could go wrong for shared or similar reasons--for example, facial-recognition AI can also suffer from the "all those minorities look alike" problem.

Consider the contrast between:

1. "A human who saw the culprit's face believes your face matches, and a computer looking at video-footage agreed."

2. "A human who saw the culprit's face believes yours matches, and your car is the same color and model as the car the culprit drove off in."

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Re:Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban by whimsicalism on Monday May 20, 2024 @03:51PM (#40419502)

I would be very curious which of the above options is more accurate, I don't think it is open-and-shut that the 2nd would be.

Obviously computer + car make would be the best combo?

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