The news there is that the system is so bad that it has a very high false-positive rate, including something that should never have been a false positive in any proper system. That's like the police arresting the mayor of San-Francisco for a robbery that happened at the same time in Miami, and was perpetrated by a male. Surely, they let her go after the lawyers got involved, but wouldn't you call a policeman who makes so obviously wrong arrest an idiot unfit for the job, regardless of the fact that the error was later corrected? Wouldn't you call for re-training, or maybe even firing such a policeman, even if you agree that there should be police in general and police work is important?
I think if we design artificial idiots, and entrust them to gatekeep our society's communications, it's newsworthy to point that fact out.
I think if we design artificial idiots, and entrust them to gatekeep our society's communications, it's newsworthy to point that fact out.