Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It | Leaked records reveal what appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use faci…::Police around the US say they’re justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.
“As long as we can pin it on someone…”
They just look for anything to make the case… Ruining lives. It’s so dystopian and sad.
Been the someone. It’s shit. ACAB.
Exactly. Just so very dumb.
There’s no way this would have been admissable as evidence on its own.
It’s far too vague to be reliable. You notice how easily the facial construction became termed a “photo” as in “We have a photo of the suspect.” DNA is not going to have info on hair length, facial hair, if the suspect dyed their hair, or weight.
Any face mods, scars, etc will also render that totally useless. I can’t wait to have to register any cosmetic surgery with the state police…
Algorithm printing the pig face as the most likely suspect:
Algorithm: “Police are much more likely to commit a crime.”
Police: “We’ve stopped using the algorithm because of inherit flaws in the code.”
IMO, the only valid use of DNA-based face generation would be to rule out existing suspects, not to label random people as suspects based on their faces alone.
I hate to say it, but there’s a better way to eliminate suspects based on our current DNA technology.
If all your suspects are black, and the dna is from a someone with Irish heritage, it’s probably not any of the black people.
Trying to reconstruct someone’s face seems really inaccurate, considering I have the same DNA as I did 10 years ago, but I’ve had high school friends who have walked passed me without recognizing me because I lost a lot of weight and grew a beard since they last saw me.
As much as racial profiling is shitty, it’s way easier to tell someone’s ethnicity from dna than it is to reconstruct their whole face. You can then use that to narrow down a list of suspects, similar to how we used to use blood type analysis before dna was a thing.
While I’m as skeptical as you are, I don’t think people recognizing you is a good metric.
A better test would be if an AI trained on your younger face could accurately and reliably identify you with your adult face.
The way AI and human face recognition work are different from each other. An AI may be able to identify you based on markers that human recognition doesn’t account for
Yay, the Department of Pre-crime.
Frenology 2.0, only difference is the science being misused to fuel it has bigger words and shinier tech.
This new “finger-printing” technology is a bad idea, said cops in the 1800s. Few people are trained on how to accurately take and match “fingerprints”, so mistakes will be plenty, and innocent people will go to jail because if it. Everyone but the cops think it is a bad idea, so we should never use fingerprints to solve crimes.
