[xnx]

Seems like there's a big difference between passive dragnet usage of facial recognition on crowds in non-criminal situations, vs using this tool combined with soliciting tips from the public to identify people from video of them performing crimes.

[username90]

The most common complaint is that AI identifies unrelated people who look similar as being the perpetrator that would never have been found without AI. Pretty likely this can happen here as well.

[analognoise]

You don't think that happens with tip lines?

If anything, far FEWER mistakes will be made. Not more.

It's this weird thing where people hear about this one scary story of a guy misidentified and think "OMG facial recognition is terrible!" but they don't realize that happens to XYZ number people a day via human error.

But we're all MORE comfortable with it if it's good old fashioned...human error?