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How is a story about a misuse of technology not a "technology story"? The "evidence" would not exist if Clearview AI (or any similar vendor) did not purport to
by danso 4y ago
How is a story about a misuse of technology not a "technology story"?
The "evidence" would not exist if Clearview AI (or any similar vendor) did not purport to offer a reliable matching algorithm and expansive dataset. It's not as if the police randomly picked out someone to frame, and then used software to fabricate evidence for the warrant.
- treis 4y agoBut they did randomly pick someone out and framed them. That's the story. Not that they randomly picked someone using ClearAI rather than doing so using mug shots, or yearbooks, or by driving down the street.
- danso 4y ago> Mr. Calogero went to the store and talked to the owner, who showed him a still from a surveillance camera. He realized that one of the alleged fraudsters looked like Mr. Reid, but the man was heavier... > “The guy had big arms, and my client doesn’t,” Mr. Calogero said. A Jefferson Parish sheriff’s officer insisted it was a “positive match,” language that made Mr. Calogero believe that facial recognition technology had been used, and he spoke to the New Orleans news outlet NOLA.com about what he believed had happened. The man's lawyer says he (the client) looks like the suspected thief in surveillance footage. How is that "random"? How would the wrongly suspected man have even been known to the police without the use of Clearview's database and matching algorithm?