Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It | Leaked records reveal what appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use faci…::Police around the US say they’re justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.

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    10 months ago

    While I’m as skeptical as you are, I don’t think people recognizing you is a good metric.

    A better test would be if an AI trained on your younger face could accurately and reliably identify you with your adult face.

    The way AI and human face recognition work are different from each other. An AI may be able to identify you based on markers that human recognition doesn’t account for