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Artanthos t1_je5phv5 wrote

Reply to comment by bananafobe in BBC News: Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC by Gigglemind

No photograph is blindly accepted. A lot of human eyes will be on both the images and the person between them being called out as a suspect and conviction.

That includes the defense attorney.

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bananafobe t1_je64ry9 wrote

And when the AI generates a face from a partially obscured or low-resolution photograph, and presents that as a scientifically accurate representation with 99.9% validity in clinical studies (or whatever), how easy is it going to be for the average public defender to explain to a jury that what they're seeing is basically a computer drawing, even though it looks like a photograph, and that 99.9% actually refers to a statistical probability about some obscure metric, and not that it's 99.9% likely that this is the right person?

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Artanthos t1_je67as6 wrote

That’s not how facial recognition works, and it’s not how the technology is used.

All this does is compare images from a camera connected to a crime with a database of publicly accessible photos. When it finds matches, it provides the match locations, e.g. Facebook.

Police investigators then use those leads to identify potential suspects.

You still have the rest of the investigation, and human eyes on the images and the potential suspects.

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