'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'

Re:'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition ... by BLKNSLVR on Sunday May 26, 2024 @08:28AM (#40481644)

> no matter how much you present something with clear "this is a heuristic, it can give you leads", a scary number of people will take it as "this will tell you whodunit" and just assume it's infallible.

That's precisely my anecdotal experience.

Subtlety and nuance are easily ignored where their absence appears to provide easy answers and the avoidance of responsibility for their outcomes.

Similarly to "It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It".

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Re:'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition ... by cogman10 on Sunday May 26, 2024 @08:50AM (#40481770)

I don't trust a sales person or marketer to not hype such a system as being flawless whodonit machine. I certainly don't trust that the people purchasing these machines won't communicate to their staff that it's a flawless whodonit machine.

That's because the step from "potential leads" to "flawless machine" is a relatively small leap easily hidden by throwing out bad stats and case studies about people caught red handed. Even if you say the machine is 80% accurate, a lot of people will happily accept harming the 20% on the chance they might be in the 80%. (Though, I'm willing to bet the false identification percentages are both not public and not kept up to date, if they are even known).

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