Re:'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition ...
by Latty on Sunday May 26, 2024 @08:46AM
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True, "check" was poor phrasing, because these things don't produce evidence, they produce alerts to guide investigation.
It should be a given that these systems don't produce anything actionable, they are a guide for a user to look more closely, of course, that requires someone in the chain stops and says "this isn't usable evidence".
Having worked on systems that required human oversight, I've seen first-hand, and analyzed data on, how people click the "LGTM" button without reflecting. We even noticed how when we improved our predictor with expert input, so that it performed better according to experts who worked with it, it would perform worse when we benchmarked on the previously "manually checked" data set. Analysis showed that the manual checks had let through so many of the algorithm's faults, that when the algorithm improved, it got a worse score.
See also https://predictive-optimization.cs.princeton.edu/ :