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I'm already seeing people on here use AI face tools to try to identify the masked ICE agent in Minneapolis. It's a truly terrible idea and here's why

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I can not agree enough. The ONLY thing you do when you add A.I. to any crime scene image is anonymize it. It can not add relivant data. Its not designed or trained to do that.

There's a good chance ICE will be very cagey about releasing the name of the murderer. However, if people want to run some actual facial recognition algorithms on the images that exist and use that as a datapoint alongside other info to extrapolate which ICE agent did this, they absolutely should.

No, because there's nobody to testify about it. You would get more accurate results by guessing it yourself and adding 6d6-21 to your guess.

He’ll get ID’d. Guarantee someone in his life hates him and wants him outed for this. Or someone he’s pissed off doing whatever he did before joining the gestapo. There’s zero chance someone like this doesn’t have a laundry list of people he’s fucked over somehow in the past.

It would help if we stopped calling them"AI". There's no intelligence involved, only probabilities. They are Large Language Models, and image generators.

Yeah, it would be great if it could be used for that (and not what they're using it for over in the bad place) but it can't. Gotta do it the old fashioned way and wait for people who don't like him to say "Oh yeah that's Jim Bob!"

There should not be a reinforcement of the ICE mask defence 'to protect ourselves'. Doesn't matter if they identify him correctly - he needs to face the law, not the fate of mob violence.

These AI tools are basically "imagine something in line with the training data". They have no intelligence and the fact so many people think they're smart or can do TV sci-fi magic is depressing.

Minnesota law enforcement will be able to identify him. It's a very bad idea to try to identify a person with rudimentary biometrics alone. You need multiple reliable data points if you are going to be responsible about OSINT. [Background] I have hunted down dozens of Nazis, DVEs, J6ers, etc.

What a bad facial recognition software. Couldn’t it come up with potential matches based on the parts of the face that are visible?

If you narrowed it down to a dozen people *first*, then, maybe. But as it is.. how many kinda-overweight white guys do you think this country HAS?