Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile-fortify-face-recognition-verify-identity/
@evacide
I pretty much always assume you're right. That said, it often makes me sad.
@evacide the article doesn't mention it, but it's well known to researchers that facial recognition is especially unreliable when the subject is not a fair-skinned Caucasian.
@evacide they intend to try a "I was just following AI" defense. It didn't work for the last group that tried to outsource their morality to "orders."
@evacide If you don't have evidence, make up the evidence...
Tge cruelty is a feature of this system...
@evacide Call me crazy, but the most terrifying thing to me in this article is: "Asked what supported probable cause, the agent cited the woman speaking Spanish, her presence with others who appeared to be noncitizens, and a “possible match" via facial recognition."
Holy goodness that is not probable cause. The 4th amendment is no more.
We could’ve saved so much time if everybody had the sense to understand fascist don’t care about truth
@evacide if you’re trying to make quota, false positives are a feature, not a bug
@evacide I think much of this is intentional and a type of DDoS attack: flood different zones to overwhelm them. Flood courts with illegal, bogus cases. Flood cities with violence. Withdraw federal aid and funding to overwhelm state and local resources. Flood feeds with scandal and spectacle. The list goes on…
Collectively I think we can defeat these attacks
@evacide was obvious to infer. Evidence works better for the slower. 🙃
@evacide sadly the people that need to hear this will never listen
@evacide *this is my shocked face dot gif*
@evacide The worst thing is, if they just used face recognition for passport verification, to eliminate human-judgement from the loop and speed things up (a la european passport control for EU citizens), I'd at least be okay with it. And then, for every kinda-okay use of facial recognition, they come up with something that's completely bullshit, and the law can't cope.
