On: A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence

[emodendroket]

If manual reclassification is routine then what does that say about the AI?

[CrazyStat → emodendroket]

That it doesn't give the answers the customers (police and prosecutors) want.

Which is mostly unrelated to whether or not it's accurate.

[emodendroket → CrazyStat]

I think it’s related. If it is good enough to put someone in jail there shouldn’t be any kind of need for manual overrides at all.

[CrazyStat → emodendroket]

"Good" in what sense? Police and prosecutors don't necessarily care about their evidence being good in the sense of accurate. It just needs to convince a jury.

There is a very, very, very long history of police and prosecutors using bad (in the sense of accuracy) evidence to put people in jail.

[emodendroket → CrazyStat]

I’m making a normative claim. Obviously it does not describe reality.