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AI had nothing to do with the mistake. The error was in database with poor data quality. The same would have happened if a human recognized the kid and matched
by alisonkisk 5y ago
AI had nothing to do with the mistake. The error was in database with poor data quality.
The same would have happened if a human recognized the kid and matched him to the (stolen) id card on file.
- mattmcknight 5y agoExactly, it's just that "Teen accused of shoplifting due to unreliable data entry" doesn't get as many clicks. It's not like the database itself was unreliable, or the facial recognition was unreliable.
- atq2119 5y agoYou didn't engage with the core of the argument, which is that the veneer of AI is used to launder the human mistake. Increasing the distance between database input and output gets in the way of human heuristics for recognizing and fixing such mistakes. Yes, the same could have happened without AI, but the probabilities are different.