Re:Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI ...
by hpdigidrifter on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:13AM
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Closed source DNA testing software and hardware is a travesty imo
Re:Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI ...
by Gibbon1 on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:52AM
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There was a man arrested in Santa Clara county because his DNA was tracked to a murder scene by the paramedics that treated him before they were called to the scene of the murder. He only got away with it because the public defender realized that he was in the hospitals detox at the time of the murder.
Re:Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI ...
by lotsofpulp on Friday March 13, 2026 @07:27AM
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Typically, the “it” in the phrase “got away with it” refers to an action that broke the rules.
Re:Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI ...
by jackyinger on Friday March 13, 2026 @02:23PM
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“Got off” would be more appropriate
Re:Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI ...
by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @11:44AM
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"got off" implies he was guilty but got away with it. I'd say "vindicated" or "absolved" fit the bill here.
Re:Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI ...
by fsckboy on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @01:06AM
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he only got away from it (it being the allegation)
Re:Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI ...
by RobotToaster on Friday March 13, 2026 @11:49AM
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DNA can also be completely faked https://www.technologyreview.com/2009/08/17/210960/how-dna-e...
Danish police had to redo 20.000 DNA tests with a larger set of markeres begin tested, because they jailed someone based solely on a DNA test and did consider that they might have gotten the wrong person, despite the DNA match. It's essentially a human hash collision.
Identification by AI is going to be the same, except worse, because it's frankly less scientific. Law enforcement, the judicial system and especially the public is simply to uninterested in learning the limitations of these types of systems. Even in the more civilized part of the world police would love to just have the computer tell them who to pick up and where.