This is ridiculous. It's fortunate for her that she was pregnant.

One would hope that this would be used as a case study on why this technology is dangerous, especially when in the hands of obviously incompetent or just malicious actors, but I doubt that'll happen.

This is the issue with big data. Big enough database you will find a closest match that seems pretty good. False positives are a huge concern in any big data approach... and couple that with lazy policing well you get this.

Facial recognition (and AI ) is a great tool to use as a double check.

"Hey I think we found her because her car is parked there, is that her?" AI says it's 90% sure it's her, sounds good let's go.

Or entering through an airport gate after scanning your passport. Great double check.

It should never be the first line to find people out of a crowd. That's how we slide into the dystopia

Aresting people because AI said so? Let's fucking go. Can't wait for the AI model that just return Yes for everything

This tech should be illegal outside of entertainment purposes imo. Things like Snapchat filters are fine, but using it to arrest people or advertise to people is straight up dystopian insanity.

flaws in identifying women and people with dark skin highlighted.

Why did I read this as women using makeup to highlight their cheekbones.

Facial recognition should always be a clue, never evidence. It should have the same weight as eyewitness testimony, because the algorithms will always have personal biases from their dataset. Otherwise, we risk lawyers saying stuff like "the algorithm gives a 99% confidence this is you" and the jury thinks this is some objective measure. Meanwhile, the algorithm only has 1% BIPOC in its dataset and labels with high confidence lots of them as being the same person.

Reminds me of the movie Anon, with this jaw-dropping quote at the end: "It's not that I have something to hide. I have nothing I want to show you."