BrainBow65

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[–] BrainBow65@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you're just talking about a strand of DNA with no epigenetic info I think 90% is being very optimistic.

[–] BrainBow65@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Hadn't heard of this before but I'm more than a little skeptical, especially if its being used for policing

"More recently, companies such as Parabon NanoLabs and Identitas have begun offering forensic DNA phenotyping services for U.S. and international law enforcement. However, the science behind the commercial services offered by Parabon NanoLabs has been criticized as it has not been subjected to scrutiny in peer-reviewed scientific publications. It has been suggested that it is not known "whether their ability to estimate a face’s appearance is better than chance, or if it’s an approximation based on what we know about ancestry” -DNA phenotyping wiki

[–] BrainBow65@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (19 children)

You're joking, right? There's a reason genotype and phenotype aren't synonyms.

[–] BrainBow65@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's worse than just using a new tool though. By definition LLMs use the statistically most likely option (with minor variation for flavor). People are literally asking a statistics bot what password can I use that is the most likely?