FFS, just when I thought some PDs hit moral rock bottom, they dig deeper.
It is already Idiocracy.
The computer says you did it.
But I didn’t do it!
The computer says you did it.
What if the computers is wrong!?
The computer says you did it.
There’s not been nearly enough coverage about what was happening in Pasco County FL up until recently (fortunately Institute for Justice shut them down) but they called it “predictive policing” or “intelligence led policing” AKA Minority Report. Using datamining and AI to target “prolific offenders” and then harassing them day and night until they committed a crime or moved out of town.
There was a podcast in 2019 called Sleepwalkers, about how we were unconsciously accepting a new reality where AI controls crucial decisions.
One of their episodes was about this exact scenario, and how it was already happening.
The podcast is back with a new name to reflect the urgency of dealing with the topics presented in the original.
This is one of those moments where the choice of pronoun matters a lot. Who is we, white man?
ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study
These are the people who got C’s in highschool, before chat GPT we’re talking about afterall.
Just enough intelligence to document your lies as truth. And smart enough to know who’s off limits.
Police have gone from just following orders. To just following Ai orders. It’s a step… A step back.
“The computer did that auto-layoff thing to everybody!”
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Man, just wait until they actually start having high quality cameras and video compression in use in these systems.
Maybe this guy wouldn’t have been “a possible match.” But also, it will just embolden them to rely on the AI even more once the cameras are 4k and a good bitrate.
Too true, if they get any lower they’ll be like paper sliding under a closed door.