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How is this real? > Travelers who are deemed dangerous can be denied entry, though in most cases they would never know if the avatar test had contributed to su
by gherkinnn 7y ago
How is this real?
> Travelers who are deemed dangerous can be denied entry, though in most cases they would never know if the avatar test had contributed to such a decision.
Jesus fuck. Denied entry because the clowns who thought this face[0] is a good idea inadvertently screwed up somewhere else. Slaves to the algorithm. Disgusting. Takes diffusion of responsibility to a whole new level.
> iBorderCtrl
Why? Seriously. Clowns confirmed.
> A study produced by the researchers in Manchester tested iBorderCtrl on 32 people [...] 75 percent accuracy [...] unbalanced in terms of ethnicity and gender.
I’d bet a decent lunch that these dummies tested it on themselves. It’s like QA-ing my own stuff. That one path I implemented works fine. What do you mean there are other ways?
I’ll add a dessert to said lunch if the accuracy of a representative sample is better than a dice roll.
> this face [0]
> An EU research program has pumped some 4.5 million euros into the project
Kewl. I can think of many ways this could be spent more productively. Like setting it aflame and frying up some bacon.
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- khuey 7y agoIt doesn't seem that much different than being denied entry because of the country you were born in. Borders are full of arbitrary decisions.
- campfireveteran 7y agoIsn't that an equivocation/conflation of differently bad things? Shouldn't border control optimize risk management based primarily on wise human intelligence on-the-ground supported by reliable or at least reliability-qualified data that doesn't hassle people any more than is absolutely necessary? For example, in the US (not the EU), the number of secret databases and watch lists that feed into current border control decision-making is absolutely frightening (per whistleblower revelations).
- dependenttypes 7y agoOne is deterministic and you can easily avoid a 7 hour travel if you know that a country rejects people from your country while the other not so much.
- petre 7y agoThe US has visa interviews for that kind of thing. That's part of why I do not intend to travel to the US. Too much of a hassle.
- retiredcoder 7y agoAdding to the GP, in the context of the USA, US Border control officers can still deny the entry of a visa holder traveler based on whatever. Also, members of visa waiver program can also be denied entry. That’s just like any one country.