In 1998 i was part of a project team that included the Met Police's IT R&D team. Those guys had a novel facial recognition system then, that was trialled in Clarendon Road in Watford. The results were not good, but the reason for canning it was that the civil liberties groups were going nuts and threatening mayhem. I cannot believe that 26 years later they haven't already implemented it and been using it for some time.
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Sad to say that, at least, the Met and Merseyside are currently using live facial recognition. They have dedicated vans and stop anyone wearing a mask near them. It has a habit of picking up racialized facial features particularly those common in BAME and GRT groups.
Gissit. I'll write some AI shit for £20m. Go on. Gissit.
You just know there is a room full of MBA types about to pitch GPT written code for this tender.
GPT written pitch, naturally.
A reminder that no facial recognition technology has any greater level of accuracy than what you could come up with.
Please no.