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Interesting - how does that come about? Do such students flock to that school?

"a not-insignificant amount of the school is queer"

In what way - many queer students?

Same here, I think I just thought about thieves being dressed in black to hide themselves in the night.

What irks me about it is that Amazon doesn't give me access to that data.

Nothing indicates that it is specific to algorithmic facial recognition. Actual humans make mistakes identifying suspects all the time. At the very least, the article should address that and compare the reactions, to prove people are more likely to act despite knowing better when the id was made by a computer.

But then it can't possibly be the "people just believe computers" effect, because the article explicitly states the police realized the computer was wrong.

Then people have to relearn, but it is not the fault of the algorithm.

False identifications by humans happen a lot, too. I think it used to be an especially big issue for black people.

Like if a black person commits a crime, and police does a lineup for a witness to identify the culprit, they would just point to the one black person in the lineup and think they did it. Surely computers can at least do as good as that, probably better.

That's not the fault of the face recognition, though. And it would have happened in the same way if a human had misclassified the image.

Do they propose nobody should ever look at images of suspects and try to identify them?

As if humans have never misidentified people or arrested the wrong person?

I find these articles very silly.

Maybe the photo on the drivers license was not good enough, so only in the real world could the police see that it was not the same person.

In any case, why not scan the database automatically (the evil, evil facial recognition), and then double check by humans?

Even when humans police, I think it is always just about probabilities. Then they follow up (ideally) and try to drive the probability of being correct higher.

Obviously nobody should be tried automatically without any recourse.

How big of a cut do they have to pay on closed hardware consoles?