I should be shocked that eight cops looked at a picture of a black kid holding a bag of doritos in his hand and agreed that it was a gun. why am I not shocked?

Essentially this AI is a racist markov chain that can be simplified:

Skin colour = dark -> something in his hand = true -> result = A WEAPON A WEAPON!!!

It is doing good work replacing the police's job of racially profiling minorities. Very efficient.

Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,” saying its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.”

What?? How is it prioritizing safety if it did exactly the opposite and created an unsafe environment (a bunch of US cops with guns pointed at teens)?

In 2021, writer and game designer Alex Blechman inadvertently created a meme:

Sci-Fi Author: "In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale."

Tech Company: "At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus!"

AI is a big component of the new and improved Torment Nexus which is coming along nicely.

Don't worry guys, they're only putting these AI cameras in literally every city and doing it in shady ways without anyone knowing. And false flags like this happen very frequently.

https://youtu.be/mQxQpzNSNZU

Look out! He's got a whole bag full of ninja throwing triangles!

Doritos, This much flavor should be illegal.

You're welcome lays, I'll take $200k for the idea.

AI detection system detects black person.

WONTFIX: Working as intended.

Drop the weapon!

Shows the importance of having a human in the loop.

And since the police vetted the image properly they shouldn't be afraid of publishing it, right?

SIR, WE CAUGHT HIM RED HANDED

Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,”

A black person gets harassed by police without reason. System is functioning as intended, indeed.

This could have been prevented if armed 'protection' drones had been installed at the school. The cops could have just stayed in the donut shop while the drones swarmed the student.

Cops not thinking and reliant on system to judge is how we get to psycho pass timeline

This is even more embarrassing than when airport security mistook a medal of honor from a ww2 veteran (Joe Foss if I am not mistaken) as a ninja star-like weapon and held him up for a long ass time.

It's crazy how LLM's and AI have arrived, and immediately started depriving us of dignity, autonomy, and financial independence... And nobody is doing shit about it.

The largest reason for this is that Donald Trump and the GOP are in power. They've actually been eroding what little safeguards had been erected.

We are all going to suffer while rich assholes destroy this world. All of us except the very, very top.

Student afraid to return to school after AI sends police after him

If it was Skittles he'd be dead

This is a Risk we MUST Take to PROTECT our Second Amendment!

-Republicans who Support Trump's ELIMINATION of the Right To Protest, Right To Speech, Two Term Limit, . . .

Dangerously cheesy

Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,”

“We understand how upsetting this was for the individual that was searched as well as the other students who witnessed the incident,” the principal wrote. “Our counselors will provide direct support to the students who were involved.”

Wonderful non-answer showing zero remorse. Good to know that the students at Kenwood High School in Baltimore should absolutely not go to school, unless they want to be another statistic of armed officers shooting kids. The school is outright declaring they'd do it again like The Punisher throwing a fit in court.

I, and most everyone I know, would 100% be crumpling up chip bags into vague shapes of guns and making it a pain in the ass for them to keep checking.

I mean the ARE pretty spicy. /s Sez the guy who just started a batch of habanero hot sauce. smh

I once mistook a bag of Doritos for the president of the USA…no, wait…it was a bag of Cheetos…wait, no, actually it was one Cheeto, one GIGANTIC Cheeto (I think?!)

Have they said sorry once?

The Doritos apocalypse has begun. I new this day would come.

No one ever says "sorry" or apologise for stuff like this. Guess its an admitance of guilt or wrongdoing and means you are liable. This way they can fight the court system... Or rather not since the parents probably can't afford a civil claim.

Fuck this litigious age we live in.