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How the N.Y.P.D.'S Facial Recognition Tool Landed the Wrong Man in Jail
- Ukv 1y ago> a spokesman said that the department never relied on it alone to make an arrest, and that the victim’s identification of Mr. Williams provided the evidence to charge him. As a layman, it looks to me like the legal system is unprepared for the unintuitive issue that if you run a facial recognition search with a 0.000001 false positive rate on a database 10 million people, you get someone who: 1. Likely looks extremely close to the target 2. Has a 99% chance of not actually being the target Eyewitness confirmation does little to shift that 99% because it'll be based largely on the same factors, rather than being independent evidence.
- duxup 1y ago“Computer said you did it.” situations seem ripe for abuse and failure. Even scarier with the black box that is AI… How can I refute what a computer says if nobody knows how it came to a conclusion?
- abstractspoon 1y agoBefore I looked at the article I said to myself "He'll be black". Nuff said