YouTube (and its parent Google) long ago lost any interest in not being evil and now *everything* they do is all about hiking revenues and boosting that bottom line. If you think otherwise then you're sadly deluded.
So true.
I absolutely can when the software design essentially invites this misuse.
There is absolutely no invitation of misuse. That's like saying every piece of software where you enter data is inviting misuse.
It's the same as me making a photograph of your face and putting it at my shop window and saying "he stole from me". It is still me making the photograph. It is not the camera maker's fault, nor the printer maker's fault that I put your mugshot on my shop window. That is entirely on the person who makes the wrongful accusation. And you do that my entering in the system "shoplifter". Not by making the facial match.
It would be a different case if the system matched the wrong face with the stored image. But that is not the case. The image recognition software did what it was supposed to do. How the shop and its employees acted on that is incorrect (and they were in the wrong entering the wrong information in the first place).
The facial recognition software did not identify her as a shoplifter.
Facial recognition software system said "this woman has been identified as a shoplifter".
That's the same as saying gun manufacturers kill people. It's saying the developer of mpeg is of bittorrent is responsible for child porn being distributed.
Sure, their system flagged her, but only because incorrect information was fed to the system. You can not blame the system for that, you have to blame the data entry point.
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying facial recognition for this purpose is ok. I don't want it either. But put blame where blame belongs.
It's immaterial WHY it flagged her
No it isn't.
, whether a bug, a fundamental flaw or a bad database entry. It's still a dystopian auto-judge/jury/executioner and auto-slander with little recourse.
But that is the shop's responsibility, not the facial software maker's. Again, you can not blame the maker of a piece of software when it is not being used properly.
"Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing." -- Karl Lehenbauer, as amended by Jeff Daiell, a Libertarian