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If facial recognition were 99.9% accurate, it would confuse someone with at least 350,000 other people in the US.
by scottwd9 6y ago
If facial recognition were 99.9% accurate, it would confuse someone with at least 350,000 other people in the US.
- Aunche 6y agoIf it's not useful, companies aren't going to pay money to use it. As Rite Aid put it, "companies seem to be scaling back or rethinking their efforts around facial recognition given increasing uncertainty around the technology’s utility."
- timmytokyo 6y agoThe companies don't care about a few false matches here or there. But if you're one of the people it keeps incorrectly identifying as a criminal who needs to be escorted out of the store, it will matter to you.
- tolbish 6y agoThe well-being of the minority vs the interests of money. I wonder how it tends to play out?
- foobiekr 6y agoCompanies do all sorts of insane, crazy things that waste inordinate amounts of money with very little return on investment.
- COGlory 6y agoI wonder if it's simply not working as well now that everyone is wearing masks.
- wasdfff 6y agoThrow in a face mask and this tech is all useless. Especially now that we’ve normalized mask use in the U.S. for probably any cold and flu going forward.
- rjsw 6y agoThey can just do gait recognition as well.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoThat's why you always shop at Walmart with a roll of pennies in a shoe.
- potta_coffee 6y agoNot if you ride the mobility scooter.
- rjsw 6y agoYou don't have to be walking. I recently met someone that I had not seen for a long time, recognized them by their pattern of small head movements.
- potta_coffee 6y agoOk just brainstorming here: mobility scooter, neck brace, leg braces, surgical mask and gloves, sombrero (maximum coverage) and aviator sunglasses.
- rolph 6y agoadd on the ill fitting clothes and perhaps those funky sunglasses with the eyeball holograms.
- treis 6y agoSort of but not really because it's 1/1000 times the chance that they shop at stores in the same geographic location. So yeah I might have a couple dopplegangers but they're likely spread around the US and can be filtered out relatively easily. It only becomes a problem if I (1) have a doppleganger, that (2) likes to steal, and (3) lives in the same area as me. It'd still be a kafkaesque nightmare but probably a pretty rare one.
- COGlory 6y agoAdditionally there's other identifiers that when coupled with the 1/350k, they can figure it out pretty quickly.
- vharuck 6y agoA better way to think of it: if the system only has a 0.1% chance of an incorrect match and at least 700 people regularly shop there, each of them is more likely than not to be misidentified as somebody else.
- beambot 6y agoThink of it more like browser fingerprinting & bits of entropy instead of a one-shot classification. E.g. cross-reference with other data to get near-100% accuracy:" digital fingerprints being emitted from your phone, tracking movement, checking out with a credit card, license plates entering the parking lot, home address vs store location, etc.