Close enough for government work, eh?

“If we would use the software only [to identify subjects], we would not solve the case 95-97 percent of the time,” Craig said. “That’s if we relied totally on the software, which would be against our current policy … If we were just to use the technology by itself, to identify someone, I would say 96 percent of the time it would misidentify.”

Source: Detroit police chief cops to 96-percent facial recognition error rate | Ars Technica

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