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by kortex 2134 days ago
> what happens when AI is wrong but used as proof of something?

False positives everywhere. There was an article on HN a few weeks back about cops picking up the wrong guy, flagged by facerec. Even though the system's printout had a huge warning, "This document is not a positive identification", the detective still had the density to say, "So I guess the computer got it wrong, too."

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882683463/the-computer-got-it...