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There are many cases of harm caused by ML false positives. There are also some cases of law enforcement successes caused by ML true positives, e.g. a RAF (Red
by jll29 7mo ago
There are many cases of harm caused by ML false positives.
There are also some cases of law enforcement successes caused by ML true positives, e.g. a RAF (Red Army Faction - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction) terrorist gone into hiding was identified by a social media photo:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240305044603/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/world/europe/daniela-klette-red-army-faction.html https://web.archive.org/web/20240305044603/https://www.nytim...
(although the success in law enforcement was actually not carried out by the police, but by investigative journalists/podcasters.)
The question we need to answer as a society is if we are willing to tolerate any innocent people to go to jail as the "price" of catching a few more criminals.