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Comment by tadfisher

4 hours ago

"Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited": https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-rec...

The plural of anecdote is not data

  • You didn't ask for data... You asked: "In what way do cameras make life harder for regular people?"

    That requires a specific example, which you were provided with. This reads to me as a pithy response that doesn't want to wrestle with the ways this can be misused.

    • By this same argument ANY police makes life hard for regular people because they sometimes fuck up, so let's just get rid of police too. What's the worst that could happen.

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  • Your question was:

    > In what way do cameras make life harder for regular people?

    I provided an example. Are you only accepting peer-reviewed studies?

    • Single example is worthless. Is there a pattern of this happening far more often? Overall, do fewer people get incorrectly arrested or detained as a result of this technology, or more.

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