Dominick Skinner is dedicated to tracking the identities of immigration officials. Hundreds of volunteers have participated in his project, and in the last 30 days alone, his website has received nearly a million visits
I like the idea, but I’m nervous that he’s using AI to build up the rest of the face from limited images. I didn’t see anything in the article - any idea how he’s verifying these people are ICE agents before publishing their names?
If it’s the same project then they are using AI to reconstruct faces, finding matches on social media, then they scan the social media for real evidence. Something like parallel construction or fusion centers except they start with synthetic “evidence” before discovering real evidence.
They take advantage of the fact many people don’t realize you can easily bring up someone’s Facebook by scanning their face. I don’t think they can find ICE members who are secretive and careful, but it’s unlikely many ICE members are that meticulous.
Nope. Same as any other random person on the internet, they have no third party fact checking, they have no incentive to be honest and truthful, and their motivations could literally be anything.
It could be a honeypot to pull everyone who visits the site. It could have non-ICE agents in the database to try to incite violence against non-ICE agents. It could simply be a list of a persons enemies from highschool.
It could also be legit, but I’m not going to take the effort to figure it out, because I dont think its that useful of a website even if it is real.
I like the idea, but I’m nervous that he’s using AI to build up the rest of the face from limited images. I didn’t see anything in the article - any idea how he’s verifying these people are ICE agents before publishing their names?
If it’s the same project then they are using AI to reconstruct faces, finding matches on social media, then they scan the social media for real evidence. Something like parallel construction or fusion centers except they start with synthetic “evidence” before discovering real evidence.
They take advantage of the fact many people don’t realize you can easily bring up someone’s Facebook by scanning their face. I don’t think they can find ICE members who are secretive and careful, but it’s unlikely many ICE members are that meticulous.
I think I read in another article a few weeks back that they have real people verifying the results as well?
Nope. Same as any other random person on the internet, they have no third party fact checking, they have no incentive to be honest and truthful, and their motivations could literally be anything.
It could be a honeypot to pull everyone who visits the site. It could have non-ICE agents in the database to try to incite violence against non-ICE agents. It could simply be a list of a persons enemies from highschool.
It could also be legit, but I’m not going to take the effort to figure it out, because I dont think its that useful of a website even if it is real.