Science AI proves that fingerprints are not unique, upending the legal system

[SlyPokerDog]

https://www.earth.com/news/ai-prove...attering-long-held-belief-legal-implications/

 

[Everything Beagle]

“Sure if you look at Details A and B, every fingerprint is unique, but if you look at Details C and D, you can see they aren’t unique!”
“Yeah that’s why we don’t look at Details C and D… they don’t produce unique results.”

 

[barfo]

I'm not sure how it 'upends the legal system' to discover that a person's fingerprints are similar in some ways to each other.

"Judge, my client is innocent! That fingerprint on the murder weapon could come from ANY of his fingers!"

barfo

 

[Everything Beagle]

I foresee an entire genre of studies that can be boiled down to: "Look At These Mistakes My AI Made"