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by okennedy 1108 days ago
Things are bad enough already, even with pre-LLM technology. "I'm sorry sir, your 8-year old son can't board this plane because the system says he's a terrorist" [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/nyregion/14watchlist.html

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You're using a straw example to try to claim a massive point.

There are 340 million people in the US. The US has one of the largest government systems that humanity is likely to ever see. How many similar cases of children being put on the terrorist watch list have there been in the past 20 years? Unless there are a lot of cases of that happening, if it's not rare (hint: it's extraordinarily rare; your example story is from 13 years ago), your premise is pure straw.

Wouldn't being innocently jailed for 9 days because of a wrong face recognition count as another example?

[0]: https://www.wired.com/story/face-recognition-software-led-to... [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/27/california-p...

An example against adoption of larger, more generalized, and less reliable models, yes
Jesus Christ