Posted on 08/13/2019 1:46:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
About 1 in 5 legislators was erroneously matched to a person who had been arrested when the ACLU used the software to screen their pictures against a database of 25,000 publicly available booking photos. Last year, in a similar experiment done with photos of members of Congress, the software erroneously matched 28 federal legislators with mug shots.
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Are we sure about that.
Here’s a question: WHOSE facial recognition software did they use?
I’m going to guess the ACLU spent some time finding the software with the worst false-positive rate.
Of coarse its wrong all 5 are criminals you can bet
It missed 4 out of 5.
Looks like the software worked very well!
Who said the software was incorrect? Sounds to me like it was really working correctly. Maybe if they tighten up the algorithm they might have gotten to 100%. Sounds like we have some pretty good ways to officially name the crooks as to who they really are.
If: CA legis-critter, Then: criminal of the highest order.
No ifs, ands, or BUTTS about it.
A mistake? Are they sure? Just sayin’, computers don’t have any bias. :)
Why do they think it’s erroneous?
Only 20%?
So. An eighty percent fail rate is not good.
ya, missed the other 3 of 5 who are......
Are you referring to Nostraldamus?
The software is obviously flawed.
It only tagged 1 out of five criminals.
I wonder how many people will get SWATTED to death because of being misidentified. FU high tech.
But if you read the fine print, the ACLU admits that it “used the default match settings that Amazon sets for Rekognition,” which is an 80% confidence level. Amazon reran the study with 30 times as many mug shots and the 99% confidence threshold they recommend for law enforcement use and the “misidentification rate dropped to zero.” You probably missed the media’s retractions.
Have No Fear of Facial Recognition
https://www.wsj.com/articles/have-no-fear-of-facial-recognition-11564955494
Those 1 in 5 are illegals that are using stolen identities.
System is 100% accurate.
Facial Recognition Software Mistook clearly identified 1 in 5 California Lawmakers as Criminals...
“Reader, suppose you were a Californian legislator. And suppose you were a criminal. But I repeat myself.”
Apologies to Mark Twain.
Yup, it’s like if some mad scientist put horse nostrils on a naked mole rat. I guess he retired in 2015.
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