Re:Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban
by whimsicalism on Monday May 20, 2024 @03:51PM
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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?
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."