David Codrea is a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament.
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The Hampton Law channel on YouTube just covered another case of facial recognition leading to an arrest of an innocent man in Nevada, and the circumstances are very similar. The police used the AI-powered software as the be-all and end-all of any investigation, instead of the starting point. They even had his driver’s license in-hand, and he offered several other positive forms of ID, but they still arrested him.
Essentially, no matter the evidence presented to them, the officers could not fathom that the software could be wrong. They even proposed that, since he must be “the guy” (because the software said so), and he’s carrying a driver’s license with a different name that who the software flagged — which they called into dispatch, who confirmed both DLs were valid and issued by the DMV — that he must have a contact within the DMV who could hook him up with fake IDs. (Paging Mr. Occam, your Razor has gone missing.) All because they refused to acknowledge the possibility that the software could be wrong.
That man has filed a civil rights lawsuit. I suspect the Discovery phase will be very interesting.
The Hampton Law channel on YouTube just covered another case of facial recognition leading to an arrest of an innocent man in Nevada, and the circumstances are very similar. The police used the AI-powered software as the be-all and end-all of any investigation, instead of the starting point. They even had his driver’s license in-hand, and he offered several other positive forms of ID, but they still arrested him.
Essentially, no matter the evidence presented to them, the officers could not fathom that the software could be wrong. They even proposed that, since he must be “the guy” (because the software said so), and he’s carrying a driver’s license with a different name that who the software flagged — which they called into dispatch, who confirmed both DLs were valid and issued by the DMV — that he must have a contact within the DMV who could hook him up with fake IDs. (Paging Mr. Occam, your Razor has gone missing.) All because they refused to acknowledge the possibility that the software could be wrong.
That man has filed a civil rights lawsuit. I suspect the Discovery phase will be very interesting.
“since he must be “the guy” (because the software said so)”
But AI’s got what cops crave! It’s got electro lights!
Humanity has a strange relationship with our blazingly fast yet incomprehensibly stupid digital creations.
On the one hand, we automatically blame any errors on the computer.
But until something proves the computer’s results to be wrong, they have the air of Papal infallibility.
And then there’s AI. Was dabbling about with a new NSFW AI app the other day. Never saw so many three legged ballerinas in my life.