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.
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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?
"The AI gave just us go-ahead, boys. Open fire!"
That's unironically already been happening in Gaza for years now, and will now happen everywhere Palantir is used.
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Its cops. They just saw a black kid and figured they could plant a dime bag or a toy train after the fact.
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I’m not convinced they looked at anything. The AI sounded the alert and they peeled rubber.
Minority report
Minority report had a specialist review the footage and present the case to ~~three~~ two witnesses who teleconferenced in and ~~approved the arrest~~ witnessed the investigation before sending in the troops.
So this is not that dystopian cautionary tale. It's worse.
Edit: re-watched the intro. The witnesses watched, but the police arrested the perp on their own accord. One of the witnesses is a judge though. So I guess it's a pretty well supervised process.
I was making a dumb joke. The ai reported a minority...
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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.
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AI detection system detects black person.
WONTFIX: Working as intended.
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Tortillas are as American as anything can be so it's normal that anti-American trump would flag them.
Its not trump that flags them but I wouldn't be surprised if its his support network of billionaire tech oligarchs
My post was a joke. In reality, identifying a bag of Doritos for a weapon sounds like the kind of mistake AI image recognition software can make. (and humans too - police have mistaken toys for actual weapons).
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Drop the weapon!
Now correctly identifies the dropped doritos bag.
Drop the weapon!
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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.
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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.
It wasn't even in his hand.
The crumpled Doritos bag in his pocket had been mistaken for a gun.
This was a good kid who crumbled up the bag and stuck it in his pocket instead of littering, and he gets traumatized by a bunch of cops for it. Hell, he could have lost his life if an acorn had fallen at the wrong moment.
Ah okay.
In protest, everyone in that school should walk around with rulers, wrappers, bottles and other things sticking out of their pockets to trigger the system.
For fucks sake in 2002 I and all the other FFA kids went to school with knives and/or multitools clipped to our belts.
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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)?
Black kids aren't supposed to feel safe. Safety is for everyone else.
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Are we sure it was just the bag of Doritos that the AI misclassified?
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.
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, . . .
They’re also openly looking to create gun registry’s and strip gun rights from certain populations like trans people
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Doritos, This much flavor should be illegal.
You're welcome lays, I'll take $200k for the idea.
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.
Cops not thinking and reliant on system to judge is how we get to psycho pass timeline
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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?
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.
RoboCop fucking timeline
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.
Could've been killed :( (Since they had guns drawn out)
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