In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said the app's results are a “definitive” determination of someone's immigration status.

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[–] 62 points 6 months ago

It's definitive because they're genuinely stupid people who aren't capable of independent thought. Is a miracle they don't forget how to stay standing up.

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  • [–] 60 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    RealID is insufficient to confirm citizenship, yet a facial recognition app that is known to make errors is "definitive"? Sounds like racist bullshit to me.

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  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    i beg of everyone to keep an open mind and to try to remember that while this might seem like racist bullshit upon first glance, that upon further inspection you will find that the reasons for these things are also racist bullshit

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If you dig far enough, there's a chance you even find some sexist bullshit in there somewhere

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    you name a way to divide a people in a harmful way, they're doing it

    • racism
    • Islamophobia
    • homophobia
    • sexism
    • transphobia
    • ablism
    • shit you ain't never even thought of hating on

    they're hating on it

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  • [–] 50 points 6 months ago

    Anyone that's ever looked into Google Photo's "auto tag" feature knows that facial recognition is not 100% accurate. Google has done it the longest, with the largest dataset and the most processing power, and it is still 90% accurate, at best.

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  • [–] 50 points 6 months ago

    Basically ICE's digital colour pantone. It sure does make their job at being racist easier.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    I found the implementation of the facial recognition app

    Family Guy skin colour meme

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    ...There's one way out, that I can see They're betting it all on one machinee With a still-beating heart From a dream they can barely recall Before it all fell apart...

    ~Protomen / Light's Last Stand

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Hey, a fellow Protomen fan! There's literally dozens of us

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago*

    It is not the evil AI what will kill us, but the stupid people using AI will.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Oh great, now the magic conch from Spongebob is deciding who gets sent to a concentration camp.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    So it works as designed.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I know the ICE are modern time stasi psykos, but the problem of definitively identifying a person is actually fairly difficult when you trust nothing from the person themselves.

    If you have a person in custody and you don't trust what they say is true, you don't trust the documents they have are authentic...how do you then determine who they actually are?

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