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.
An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks
Submitted 1 day 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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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
It’s using genAI to make best guess portraits of ICE agents, WTF are you going on about?
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 23 hours ago
I am skeptical.
Chozo@fedia.io 21 hours ago
Doesn't really matter if it works, as long as it instills the fear that it could.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 10 hours 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 7 hours ago
Wait until you hear what empire is doing with facial recognition in palestine, etc…
irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours 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 18 hours ago
Skeptical about the accuracy, given everything we’ve seen AI do so far.
Zetta@mander.xyz 9 hours 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 4 hours ago
The author said its 60% faulty. So everyone is an ice agent, after enough time
quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 hours ago
The author said its 60% faulty. So everyone is an ice agent, after enough time
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours 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 18 hours 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 18 hours 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 19 hours ago
Where dat repo at
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
holomorphic@lemmy.world 3 hours 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.
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 23 hours ago
I feel like this is going to get non-combatants identified and ruin normal people's lives.
Chozo@fedia.io 21 hours 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 4 hours ago
I have a bicycle.
rainwall@piefed.social 22 hours 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 22 hours 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 17 hours ago
Yes, this just levels the playing field so i think there is little to no downside.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Are you talking about ICE? Yes, they have attacked many non-combatants and ruined many lives.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 hours ago
No, he’s talking about you being (mis)identified as an ICE agent. Because this tech sucks.
papertowels@mander.xyz 17 hours 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.