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Innocent People Are Being Accused of Shoplifting by Faulty AI-Facial Recognition Systems at an Alarming Rate: "It's the stuff of Kafkaesque nightmares." (futurism.com)
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[–] 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

if they called the authorities by telling them that person had stolen something, it would be Libel

It would not. I resent that. Libel is written. In speech, it's slander.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah, English is not my first language and I kept feeling there was another word in English for the spoken form only, same as in my own language, but couldn't remember it.

    So cheers for that!

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

    Oh sorry. In case you didn't pick up on it, I was making a reference. Not supposed to be taken too seriously! (Though it was technically accurate.)

    Anyway, in reality in the modern world, there's usually no difference. The general term for both print and spoken, and the term used in most English-language legal systems today, is defamation.

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