Rite Aid has been banned from using facial recognition software, with the FTC highlighting the drugstore's "reckless" use of AI surveillance.
Rite Aid banned from using facial recognition software after falsely identifying shoplifters | FTC says the company’s ‘reckless use’ of AI humiliated customers::Rite Aid has been banned from using facial recognition software, with the FTC highlighting the drugstore’s “reckless” use of AI surveillance.
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Reason 999 to live in Illinois, lol
Okay now do everyone else too
The EU is planning to ban a whole bunch of use cases for AI including this one, hopefully other countries follow suit.
Next month: Rite Aid sells to new company, Right Eh’d.
Christ they’re trying to use AI face recognition on dark-skinned people. The cameras can’t see the definition in the faces to get a proper geometry.
The crap just literally doesn’t work.