> the headline makes it sound like this was an AI falsely accusing someone based on pure randomness.
no, it doesn't. the headline makes it sound like facial recognition is unreliable for some reason.
the reason, in this case, is that the Apple store and/or SIS personnel gave the recognition system Ousmane's name when they weren't able to prove it was him, and the document provided for identification was not actual proof of identification.
Further facial recognition matches assigned further blame to the misidentified person, increasing the evidence against him.
Then, because store owners and security firms really want to put away shoplifters, they claimed that video proof of the shoplifting was routinely deleted when there was no policy describing a deletion policy within Apple or SIS, only for video proof that the individual was not Mr. Bah to later be found.
in this case, facial recognition tech was unreliable entirely because of the people running it.
no, it doesn't. the headline makes it sound like facial recognition is unreliable for some reason.
the reason, in this case, is that the Apple store and/or SIS personnel gave the recognition system Ousmane's name when they weren't able to prove it was him, and the document provided for identification was not actual proof of identification.
Further facial recognition matches assigned further blame to the misidentified person, increasing the evidence against him.
Then, because store owners and security firms really want to put away shoplifters, they claimed that video proof of the shoplifting was routinely deleted when there was no policy describing a deletion policy within Apple or SIS, only for video proof that the individual was not Mr. Bah to later be found.
in this case, facial recognition tech was unreliable entirely because of the people running it.