Amazon ‘Rekognition’ Falsely Identifies 28 Congress Members as Criminals

[Lucian Armasu]

The ACLU showed that Amazon's Rekognition facial recognition tech isn't harmless in a test that incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress with mugshots.

Amazon ‘Rekognition’ Falsely Identifies 28 Congress Members as Criminals : Read more

 

[John Nemesh]

I'm not sure the computer got it wrong. Most members in Congress ARE criminals!

 

[hang-the-9]

Was about to post the same thing

 

[gasaraki]

LOL, AI is really getting good. They know who the criminals are.

 

[tnm2gen]

FAKE OUTRAGE
If you do some research you find the ACLU did these comparisons with the reliability set to 80% confidence when Amazon specifies 95% for facial recognition (Rekognition can also be used for objects and places for which the default setting is 80%). Run the tests again at 95% and see if there is still a story.

 

[arakisb]

wow, did they get it wrong

99% are criminals and the rest are crooks

the percentage of politicians indicted for one thing or another only matches that of the nfl and nba, and those are the professions that felons can thrive

 

[homeybaloney]

maybe have the test run in multiple locations to build a true value then go from there.

 

[rbritz]

It's illegal in the US to take a bribe, yet politicians take PAC, SuperPAC, and other outside donations to vote specifically for issues that benefit these types of groups, and nobody says anything. The machine got it right, throw every single one of them into jail.

 

[BryanFRitt]

"reliability set to 80% confidence."
So Amazon ‘Rekognition’ is fairly confident that at least 4.1869% of the 535 members congress are arrested criminals.
(28/535 marked as arrested criminals)*(8/10 true positives) = 112?2675 ? 0.041869... ? 004.1869...% ? 1/25
not including false negatives

four categories: false positives, true positives, false negatives, true negatives
positive/negative is how the test turned out
true/false is what actually is

 

[mihen]

Those 28 were falsely matched, the rest were positively matched.

 

[ledhead11]

Could be fun to see the results of the current 50 governors next.

 

[BryanFRitt]

"Amazon ‘Rekognition’ Falsely Identifies 28 Congress Members as Criminals"
What's the actual number?, if it's not 28? 0?, 535? something else?

It might be nice to see a side by side pictures to compare the mug shots of the members of congress to the mugs shots of the arrested criminals that these members of congress look like
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p.s.
? 1/24 is closer to 112?2675 than ? 1/25

 

[dark_lord69]

It might be nice to see a side by side pictures to compare the mug shots of the members of congress to the mugs shots of the arrested criminals

And try again at 95%.

I've seen effective facial recognition software in China. They used the system to arrest over 1,000 fugitives in a few days!!

 

[astro-john]

Are you so sure its wrong?

 

[Johnny Baker]

Truth be told, it was right on target and they actually are crooks. Why else would they be in politics.

 

[r5dpilot]

Good grief! They're ALL democrats!!

I can understand why the ACLU is upset now...

 

[r5dpilot]

Good grief! They're ALL democrats!!

Now I understand why the ACLU is upset - LOL!! If it were all Republicans, they would never have complained or even let anyone know.

BTW, great organization - really a bunch of outstanding citizens...

 

[TJ Hooker]

Good grief! They're ALL democrats!!

I can understand why the ACLU is upset now...

No, they're not. The 28 misidentified politicians include a number of republicans.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28

 

[redgarl]

"A recent incident in San Francisco provides a disturbing illustration of that risk. Police stopped a car, handcuffed an elderly Black woman and forced her to kneel at gunpoint — all because an automatic license plate reader improperly identified her car as a stolen vehicle."

OMG, the US government has the duty to create a training plan for police officers. In Quebec, you need to go to college for 3 years for becoming a police officers. You guys are insane if you believe a bully from high school could become a proper cop.

The number of stupid incidents with the law force are outstanding. The only thing I could say is WAKE UP.

 

[alan_rave]

False settings and congress members are prisoners. It happens)

 

[SyncroScales]

All of the white-collar criminals will not be facially recognized? Celebrities who are criminals get away with their crimes? Nobody has spoken about such biases. How much does it cost or who/what do you have to know/be to have your data removed from the data-bases?