Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition

Post by conartist6 » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 11:07 AM UTC

DangitBobby wrote: post #256

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If it didn't erase accountability, how would it create any value? Many people are treating this as a matter of philosophy, which it isn't. At a primitive, physiological level if you delegate to AI and most of the time you don't get in trouble for it, the resulting relationship you have with the AI could only be called "trust". If you're expected to be 40% more productive at your job, your employer is making it crysta…

The value is creates is obvious: finding a needle in a haystack. Is accountability laundering another potential benefit? Sure. Can we stop pretending we don't understand understand the other side of it? Cynicism is nice and all but after a certain point it eventually wraps around and makes us look naive.

Post by lotsofpulp » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 11:27 AM UTC

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It's only recently some have come to terms with the fact that DNA evidence sometimes returns false positives. Society, and law enforcement, assumed that DNA was infallible. No one apparently wondered millions of people could be reduced to a tiny number of genetic markers apparently having no overlap. Danish police had to redo 20.000 DNA tests with a larger set of markeres begin tested, because they jailed someone bas…

There was a man arrested in Santa Clara county because his DNA was tracked to a murder scene by the paramedics that treated him before they were called to the scene of the murder. He only got away with it because the public defender realized that he was in the hospitals detox at the time of the murder.

Post by abustamam » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 12:01 PM UTC

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What do you propose we do in the latter situation? The news isn't the value of the life that was (presumably lost). The news is the circumstances that made that loss possible. Human driver was maybe careless, or maybe didn't look. The child safety classes I took emphasized over and over again to look around your car and yard before backing your car out. This is a problem with a known solution that unfortunately still…

"This is a problem with a known solution that unfortunately still happens despite the best efforts to prevent it." Great, let's just apply that logic to Waymo as well and call it a day (see how silly that sounds?). Waymo has engineers..so does the Department of transportation.

Post by Anamon » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 12:34 PM UTC

DangitBobby wrote: post #251

stego-tech wrote: post #132

I really, really need folks to understand that deflecting blame away from the tool and trying to hold the human accountable feeds right into the marketing playbook of these companies in the first place. The cops cannot be held accountable because the laws basically give them immunity. The politicians cannot be held accountable beyond being tossed out at the next election, because the laws otherwise give them immunity…

Is there anything to suggest this sort of injustice isn't happening in low-tech all the time, constantly, all over the country, and the only reason it's getting attention here is because AI is involved?

Post by FpUser » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 1:07 PM UTC

JuniperMesos wrote: post #347

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In Criminal Contempt max duration of imprisonment is limited. In civil it is not until somebody decides that one never complies. You may call it due process. I call it for what it is - A torture and fucking crime against humanity. Judge that holds person for years for being stubborn deserves nothing more than walk the plank

Any power that could force a judge to actually walk the plank for what they see as an abuse of power, is itself something like a state, that could just as easily wield that power against the stubborn defendant.