It's definitive because they're genuinely stupid people who aren't capable of independent thought. Is a miracle they don't forget how to stay standing up.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
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RealID is insufficient to confirm citizenship, yet a facial recognition app that is known to make errors is "definitive"? Sounds like racist bullshit to me.
i beg of everyone to keep an open mind and to try to remember that while this might seem like racist bullshit upon first glance, that upon further inspection you will find that the reasons for these things are also racist bullshit
If you dig far enough, there's a chance you even find some sexist bullshit in there somewhere
you name a way to divide a people in a harmful way, they're doing it
- racism
- Islamophobia
- homophobia
- sexism
- transphobia
- ablism
- shit you ain't never even thought of hating on
they're hating on it
Anyone that's ever looked into Google Photo's "auto tag" feature knows that facial recognition is not 100% accurate. Google has done it the longest, with the largest dataset and the most processing power, and it is still 90% accurate, at best.
Basically ICE's digital colour pantone. It sure does make their job at being racist easier.
I found the implementation of the facial recognition app
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Oh great, now the magic conch from Spongebob is deciding who gets sent to a concentration camp.
It is not the evil AI what will kill us, but the stupid people using AI will.
So it works as designed.
I know the ICE are modern time stasi psykos, but the problem of definitively identifying a person is actually fairly difficult when you trust nothing from the person themselves.
If you have a person in custody and you don't trust what they say is true, you don't trust the documents they have are authentic...how do you then determine who they actually are?