I am skeptical.
An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks
Submitted 4 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/ai-unmasking-ice-officers-00519478
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YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Chozo@fedia.io 4 weeks ago
Doesn't really matter if it works, as long as it instills the fear that it could.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All this stuff works on probabilities, even with a fully visible face the model just says it’s really confident hence articles like this - Facial recognition leads to wrongful arrest.
So the more of the face that’s covered, the larger the confidence interval, or basically the less accurate it is.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Wait until you hear what empire is doing with facial recognition in palestine, etc…
irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
ICE agents just like all law enforcement agencies, are public servants employed by taxpayers. Good luck finding any other legitimate job you can hide your identity from your employer. If you choose to serve the public, you choose to be in the public eye a d should be identifiable. I could care less if they wear a mask or not, but they should be required to have some other identifiable marking if not like a badge number, or hell, even something to identify that they are agents and not just random kidnappers would be an improvement. As for being harassed for doing their job, if they’re doing the job in a reasonable way, they wouldn’t be harassed. Sure they wouldn’t be able to hit the quotas they’re given, but having quotas for finding criminals is a backwards concept in general and means they have to create criminals when there aren’t enough that are easy to catch. It shouldn’t be easy. It should be thorough, especially if no life is I’m danger from the “criminals”.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Skeptical about the accuracy, given everything we’ve seen AI do so far.
Zetta@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
If you read the article, it is stated that there is a team that hand reviews the matches at the end because of course, like all things, no, it is not perfectly accurate.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
The author said its 60% faulty. So everyone is an ice agent, after enough time
quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
The author said its 60% faulty. So everyone is an ice agent, after enough time
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yes, the “AI” grift is annoying and completely untrustable.
As usual, there’s zero “AI” involved here.
It’s just facial recognition. Just more statistics on data.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If there’s ever a target that deserves it…
Also, I FULLY support inaccurate targets. This might be the only way fucking brainless, heartless conservatives could ever agree to regulate “AI”.
OwlPaste@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
they would likely just arrest the person foing it and make it against the law to identify certain enforcers.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Where dat repo at
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
holomorphic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sure, let’s pretend the field of AI, with that exact name, isn’t at least 50 years old.
Facial recognition has probably been taught in AI courses for almost two decades now. “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach” is 30 years old, and only about half of it is concerned with Statistics.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
As usual there’s no “AI” involved at all. Just statistics on data. The nonstop grifting is further eroding the already destroyed credibility of mainstream journalism.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s using genAI to make best guess portraits of ICE agents, WTF are you going on about?
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 4 weeks ago
I feel like this is going to get non-combatants identified and ruin normal people's lives.
Chozo@fedia.io 4 weeks ago
Wait until you hear about the 200 Flock cameras you drove past on the way to work this morning which already ID'd you and reported your movements to all of the 3-letter agencies regardless of whether you were suspected of anything.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I have a bicycle.
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Well, and this sounds stupid, I don't expect to be doxxed by those agencies yet. If I got put onto an ICE agent list, then I could be fucked. I support fighting against ICE and identifying their genocidal employees, but we should be sure of who we're punishing.
rainwall@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
They are already using this or worse. Theil's Palintir is already doing tons of nasty data analytics. Ads in luck Palmer's weapons/surveillance company Anduril, and you have the data input and attack payloads ready to go, all from Chud industries.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Don't forget about all the info on every American the doge kids stole. They'll be using that too.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Yes, this just levels the playing field so i think there is little to no downside.
papertowels@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah this is hella sketchy. It’s MAYBE one step above saying “chat gpt, show me what this agents face looks like” and then using that to try and find a match.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Are you talking about ICE? Yes, they have attacked many non-combatants and ruined many lives.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
No, he’s talking about you being (mis)identified as an ICE agent. Because this tech sucks.
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
No, I'm talking about normal non-ICE agents being identified as ICE agents and being treated as such. Shitty ai shouldn't be used to decide whether or not we should dox people. We need to be precise in our vengeance.