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Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Deep@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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People shamed and ordered to leave shops after being misidentified then ‘given no help’ to investigate verdicts

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Funny how even the things "AI" is okay at (pattern matching within a certain margin of error) still can't be used properly.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Those using it don't care if they get false positives, so it's working as far as they're concerned.

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

To them it's more trouble to actually double check or review hits then to just give people a blanket ban if they might could possibly be shoplifters.

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 point 6 months ago

Yeah someone was explaining how false positives specifically within the context of early markers of pancreatic cancer are actually not much of a concern.

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