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AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it? (www.politico.com)
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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 14 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

This doesn't unmask them. It produces hallucinations of what the AI dreams the person might look like, and then feeds it into another system to see if that artwork looks close to any other photo online.

Do this an infinite number of times, and every person with a photo online is identidied as an ICE agent.

Skinner acknowledged that the technology is flawed, and he said that about that 60 percent of the AI-generated results and facial recognition searches lead to wrong matches on social media profiles

Yep

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago

so, like all other AI slop.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 6 points 3 hours ago

This is going to get a lot of innocent people hurt due to false-positives :(

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Sure they can: they can order the ICE domestic terrorists to go unmasked - no way to unmask them with AI.
And while they're at it, they can make them wear pseudonymous identifiers.
In a law and order state (by meaning and not only name) this would be a given. The difference from it tells a lot.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 214 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

An activist has started using artificial intelligence to identify Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents beneath their masks — a use of the technology sparking new political concerns over AI-powered surveillance.

So now they're worried about surveillance? Spy on the entire population and it's fine, but hold a cop accountable and all of a sudden surveillance is a "political concern".

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The entirety of conservatism is "there must be in groups for laws to protect but not bind, and out groups for laws to bind but not protect". That's pretty much it. Everything else follows from that. Facts don't matter. Consistency doesn't matter. They are shitty people. Cartoon villains

[–] jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago

well said

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 60 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Wait till you hear about flock cameras

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 37 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Heard about them the other day thanks to Benn Jordan.

https://youtu.be/Pp9MwZkHiMQ

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

So, this leads me to believe that our politicians are getting blackmailed all over the place, not to mention bribed. I do wish he would make his own security cameras like nest or ring, I would buy that shit in a heartbeat.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I'm starting to think this is a worldwide issue and we are slowly reaching the climax of global society. Governments and US politicians caving to Trump, the slow adoption of authoritarian laws, the increase of mass surveillance around the world, governments denying genocide when they see it, politicians ignoring the public, and so many more issues. I feel like every world leader has blackmail on every other world leader and we are just waiting to see who gets exposed first. And when that does happen, I expect a domino effect of things akin to the Epstein files being exposed as every world leader gets their dirty secrets leaked one after the other.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think the blackmail theory may be overly charitable. Maybe we're just surrounded by billionaires and politicians who really believe in authoritarian fascism.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Yep. This is it. There is definitely blackmail occurring at some scale, and mass surveillance is definitely being used to conduct a lot of political corruption and espionage, but the overarching theme is that the winners of capitalism are no different to the kings and queens of history, and are using their capital to seize the means of democracy, returning the majority to dictatorships of feudalist servitude, and they haven't even been quiet about their psychopathy or megalomania.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

I don’t think blackmail is needed. These are ambitious people who won't let anything get in the way of thier success. To them, ignoring genocide is just a way to curry favor. (That can't be the right curry, can it?)

[–] whosepoopisonmybutt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks. I hate it.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Pretty excited to try out an adversarial license plate cover though. At least, until they make them ~~illegal~~ only for members of the police benevolents association.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yeah of course. Same reason we can only have nuclear power to run AI data centers and not for residential power.

[–] londos@lemmy.world 25 points 15 hours ago

"This tool supports law enforment by verifying that masked individuals commiting crimes while refusing to identify themselves are actual ICE agents rather than just imposters."

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 120 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

ICE did not comment on the accuracy of Skinner’s purported identifications, but in a statement, ICE spokesperson Tanya Roman said that the masks “are for safety, not secrecy”

says the party of covid deniers

[–] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 55 points 19 hours ago

"I can't breathe with a mask on" 🤡

[–] CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 16 hours ago

It's just laughable. The safety is literally the secrecy. Or vice-versa. They're keeping themselves, secret, keeping themselves safe. Every one of of them should be doxxed.

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Weren't there statistics saying gaiters weren't really effective for filtering? Also, the whole point of wearing a mask to not let you spread anything?

[–] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

A well-sealed respirator mask like an N95 filters inhalation and exhalation extremely well.

Via https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2769443 :

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

the mask yes matters more that it helps if the person themselves has it, from spreading it to others. but still does offer a level of protection for yourself (not to the same degree as the sick person wearing it).

Wearing a mask is like a rampant person running around peeing. If the person peeing is wearing pants, it blocks most of the urine from spreading. If you wear pants, it still offers a level of protection more than if you chose to not wear pants to avoid the pee.

The reason why it was important for covid is that there are many asymptomatic carriers, so unless you can prove to everyone around you that you DIDN'T have it without wearing a mask, you should be treated as potentially having it.

[–] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Thus, a world where we don’t protect each other is like an ouroboros of peeing Calvin stickers.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago

This is very awesome and a GREAT use of AI.

I remember learning a great word years ago when various tools were being considered/used to monitor the so-called "authorities" like cops and so on, and it's:

sousveillance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

And this is a perfect example of it.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

We need the SETI version of this, where we can collectively provide compute for the cause.

[–] CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

UnMaski@Home? I've got GPU and CPU power to donate.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 14 hours ago

NAZI@Home would be pretty apt, plus visually similar in text.

People might not be thrilled at installing something with that name though, lol.

Could it stand for something plausible? The Non Anonymization of Zionists Initiative?

[–] Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 16 hours ago

could probably roll something based of the kobold horde code for doing collective compute if anyone has the magic combination of determination and ability

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago

or like with protein folding: unmasking at home

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 62 points 20 hours ago

ICE agents “don’t deserve to be hunted online by activists using AI,”

ICE agents “~~don’t~~ deserve to be hunted ~~online by activists using AI~~”

FTFY Senator

[–] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 54 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Finally, a useful application of AI 😝

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 17 points 20 hours ago

Whelp now they're going to let the AI bubble burst

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago

I mean they are the ones that wanted no guardrails on AI. They want all the benefits but none of the downsides and I'm sure they'll prove that in the next couple weeks.

[–] HorikBrun@kbin.earth 24 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Dox every one of them.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 38 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It's not doxing, it's documenting

You know, for the Vancouver trials (or wherever we end up having them)

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Exactly. Police are public property, as are federal employees, they are on our payroll, they didn't get to be anonymous.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 16 hours ago

Also true, but also this just isn't doxing. This isn't revealing personal information from people on the Internet, this is identifying people doing things in the real world

If you kidnap someone, it's not doxing to identify you on the news or on Twitter. It's literally identifying criminals

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Public servants lol, not public property. This country did at least manage to ban most forms of slavery. Most.

[–] Pavidus@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago

Washington CAN do something about it. Remove the masks. The more they mask up, the more people should as well.