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Treadcc t1_jdz2vi3 wrote

The problem is the dumb cops who are bad at their job will use this as a crutch to skip steps and build cases around the wrong people just like they have done before. So as much as I'd like to have better tools to catch criminals our unchecked and bad police processes will cause innocent people to get swept up.

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Art-Zuron t1_jdzvypi wrote

AI is very susceptible to biases, so I'm concerned that police will turn it into a racial profiler as well.

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MhaloTov t1_je001ag wrote

I’m sure you won’t be surprised to hear that exact thing has been done before in the past

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Art-Zuron t1_je01a0j wrote

Amazon's hiring algorithm once had to be turned off becsuse it became racist and sexist. It was automatically excluding non white and female sounding names.

Iirc, it was because the majority of applicants were white males. As a result, most of the hires were white males. The AI recognized this as meaning that white males were the ideal candidate and would hire them more, which caused a feedback loop.

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PMme10DollarPSNcode t1_je0anus wrote

There's also Google's infamous "Gorilla" Blunder: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/technology-33347866.amp

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Artanthos t1_je32oli wrote

8 years is an eternity in AI development.

Comparing a modern AI to something from that long ago would be the equivalent of taking someone with a masters degree and judging them by the work they did in kindergarten.

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Prcrstntr t1_je0ygz0 wrote

The gorilla problem is not a simple one to solve.

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RevengencerAlf t1_je0ep4l wrote

>The problem is the dumb cops who are bad at their job

You say that like there are cops this doesn't describe...

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Treadcc t1_je1onpd wrote

It's like "a few good apples" continues to be the excuse in America to do nothing to improve our policing

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No-Significance2113 t1_je17ni8 wrote

It's why the law is "innocent until proven guilty" because it can be so easy to convict an innocent person that the laws supposed to be biased towards letting people go. God knows how many innocent people have been thrown in jail it must be atrouchise.

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Artanthos t1_je32amj wrote

Cops cannot visually identify everyone. No human can.

Before this, all the cops had to identify a picture from a camera was files full of mug shots. This would present several problems addressed by facial recognition.

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  1. Human identification from mug shots is notoriously error prone
  2. It only work if there are mug shots or other evidence that identifies the individual.
  3. Fingerprints and DNA are only going to be available if the person was previously arrested. The same problem that mug shots present.
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