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Clearview AI, the AI in question, doesn't come out of it looking great: > Clearview AI, a Delaware-based technology company, boasts that its facial recognition
by probably_wrong 2y ago
Clearview AI, the AI in question, doesn't come out of it looking great:
> Clearview AI, a Delaware-based technology company, boasts that its facial recognition programs can be used to fight child exploitation, investigate crimes, exonerate the innocent and even identify Russian spies working in Ukraine, according to its website.
> A statement at the bottom of the facial recognition report (...), reads, in part: “These search results are not intended or permitted to be used as admissible evidence in a court of law or any court filing.”
It seems to me that Clearview AI overpromised, tried to pull a Tesla with their "this car can't legally drive itself so don't try it, wink wink" strategy, and now they have turned themselves into a liability. Usually I would be happier about news like that, but then I wonder: who are Clearview AI's customers? Which type of entity "investigates crimes" and "identifies Russian spies" in such a way that they don't need the results to be "admissible evidence in a court of law"?
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoSomeone else mentioned Parallel Construction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction); in this case, Clearview could be used to find the suspect's social media, get better pictures, which could then be matched with other surveillance footage. or something. There's ways and means.
- scintill76 2y agoI assume spies in a warzone are often captured/killed without court-admissible evidence. The existence of facial recognition SW probably doesn't change that.