The New York Times reports the tech has mistakenly identified people as connected to Hamas.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/27998954

Israel quietly rolled out a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip

Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks, uses technology from Google Photos as well as a custom tool built by the Tel Aviv-based company Corsight to identify people affiliated with Hamas.

  • ShadowRam@fedia.io
    10·
    9 months ago

    Seeing how AI fucks up quite often, there’s going to be a lot of false positives.

    • akrz@programming.devOPEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      yeah the article includes such a case occuring with the system in the Gaza strip and an innocent guy being held captive and tortured

    • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      Oh darn that caveat will really slow the IDF down and make them think twice!

      “You can’t pin that on us, I killed that innocent family because the AI said they were Hamas!”

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports.

    The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks, uses technology from Google Photos as well as a custom tool built by the Tel Aviv-based company Corsight to identify people affiliated with Hamas.

    Corsight, which has boasted that its technology can accurately identify people even if less than 50 percent of their face is visible, used these photos to build a facial recognition tool Israeli officers could use in Gaza.

    To further build out its database — and identify potential targets — the Israeli military set up checkpoints equipped with facial recognition cameras along major roads Palestinian used to flee south.

    One officer told the Times that Google Photos could identify people even when only a small portion of their face was visible, making it better than other tools, including Corsight.

    According to the Forbes report, Corsight’s technology was able to take images of people “whose features had been impacted by physical trauma, and find a match amongst photos sent in by concerned family members.”

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