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Maybe I’m not very creative but I don’t really see the use cases for this. I skimmed the article thinking it would have some and I didn’t see one.

ahelwer 6y ago
As always with facial recognition, the use case is total surveillance & tracking of a population.
vorpalhex 6y ago
The theoretical use case is that somehow it helps tracks suspects. Obviously that's only reality in a case where you either have broad facial recognition profiles across the population, or you have additional facial recognition cameras in an area of interest, both of which raise additional concerns. In reality I suspect this is a solution in search of a problem. I was witness to a serious hit and run, caught video of the person who fled - clear pictures of the person, car, license plate. Should have been the easiest case in the world to handle but leos didn't even ask for the footage. Only group that has ever accepted dashcam footage from me is insurance. Most law enforcement agencies have a lot more data than they can reasonably handle, but it's easier to complain about a lack of data than explain you can't actually analyze it.
heavyset_go 6y ago
Use cases that are pretty valuable: - Black box that will confirm authority's bias about who is guilty, and who isn't. - Black box to absolve authority of accusations of bias by offloading the bias to another biased party. - Black box to absolve authority of responsibility, because they were just following the black box's orders. - Dragnet identification of people in order to investigate, charge, serve warrants or make arrests. The latter is their most likely stated reason, there are several reports of law enforcement going through footage and pictures to identify people with outstanding warrants and to issue others with new charges. There is also a strong desire to identify everyone a suspect interacts with, because they must be guilty by association. Law enforcement is very paranoid, in general, and like most of the general public, think what they see computers do on CSI is real.
- flattone 6y ago
  What are people seeing on CSI that is or isn’t real? I know of the show but have not seen. And I doubt CSI is presenting tech which is as advanced as reality. I have seen black mirror, and reality isn’t too far from that. (Referring to the direction/trajectory of our development of ML, sensors etc)
  - heavyset_go 6y ago
    Like with a lot of entertainment, there is no distinction between actual engineering or police work, and magic.
flattone 6y ago
Use case: imagine hitler with a country/nations full of face rec #avoidatallcosts nothing outweighs the risk here. Ever.
hackerbrother 6y ago
Uh, to be able to determine if a person was in a place at a certain time? By feeding surveillance footage and a person's photo into the machine?

ahelwer 6y ago

As always with facial recognition, the use case is total surveillance & tracking of a population.

vorpalhex 6y ago

The theoretical use case is that somehow it helps tracks suspects. Obviously that's only reality in a case where you either have broad facial recognition profiles across the population, or you have additional facial recognition cameras in an area of interest, both of which raise additional concerns. In reality I suspect this is a solution in search of a problem. I was witness to a serious hit and run, caught video of the person who fled - clear pictures of the person, car, license plate. Should have been the easiest case in the world to handle but leos didn't even ask for the footage. Only group that has ever accepted dashcam footage from me is insurance. Most law enforcement agencies have a lot more data than they can reasonably handle, but it's easier to complain about a lack of data than explain you can't actually analyze it.

heavyset_go 6y ago

Use cases that are pretty valuable: - Black box that will confirm authority's bias about who is guilty, and who isn't. - Black box to absolve authority of accusations of bias by offloading the bias to another biased party. - Black box to absolve authority of responsibility, because they were just following the black box's orders. - Dragnet identification of people in order to investigate, charge, serve warrants or make arrests. The latter is their most likely stated reason, there are several reports of law enforcement going through footage and pictures to identify people with outstanding warrants and to issue others with new charges. There is also a strong desire to identify everyone a suspect interacts with, because they must be guilty by association. Law enforcement is very paranoid, in general, and like most of the general public, think what they see computers do on CSI is real.

flattone 6y ago
What are people seeing on CSI that is or isn’t real? I know of the show but have not seen. And I doubt CSI is presenting tech which is as advanced as reality. I have seen black mirror, and reality isn’t too far from that. (Referring to the direction/trajectory of our development of ML, sensors etc)
- heavyset_go 6y ago
  Like with a lot of entertainment, there is no distinction between actual engineering or police work, and magic.

flattone 6y ago

Use case: imagine hitler with a country/nations full of face rec #avoidatallcosts nothing outweighs the risk here. Ever.

hackerbrother 6y ago

Uh, to be able to determine if a person was in a place at a certain time? By feeding surveillance footage and a person's photo into the machine?