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[+] 81 points 2 years ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is it really any different than when the formula did it?

    When Apple launched their credit card it was super biased against applicants with female names. They blamed it on the formula.

    Ai is just the newest fancy word for programming.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    By formula do you mean algorithm

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is an algorithm not a formula?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Some algorithms might be able to be written as formulas but generally no. An algorithm is a repetition of steps to achieve a desired result and does not have a fixed way of representing itself because it could make different decisions along the way in different situations.

    A sorting algorithm is not a formula, for example. Formulas are mathematical or logical expressions that can be evaluated.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    The AI has denied your cancer treatment claim. you insurance based on your genetic history for cancer, thanks to buying your genome from [insert company that bought out 23andMe/Ancestry.com]

    ftfy

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Body camera video equivalent to 25 million copies of “Barbie”

    Literally anything but the metric system

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    it's called SEO and it's an art

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    SEO os the bane of the internet. SEO is why i have to scroll through a novella every time i want to check out a recipe

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    There is no common metric measure of time.

    Edit -common

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Body camera video equivalent of 25 million copies of "Barbie"

    Is this a typical unit of measurement in journalism? Like what even is this? Crappy in-article advertising? Some weird SEO shit? An odd attempt to be cool and hip?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's America; anything but metric.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And which "metric" unit of time measurement do you prefer?

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago

    That sounds like a big investment to find no wrongdoing by officers.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    oh great I'm sure the training for this will not result in a bunch of things getting "reviewed" and no one being responsible for mistakes at all...

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Would you rather these things never be reviewed? Isn't something better than nothing?

    You'll literally never be able to afford (or hire) enough people to review the data they are taking in...

    I mean unless we start killing billionaires and taking their shit.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Yea I share the same concerns about the "AI", but this sounds like a good thing. It's going through footage that wasn't going to be looked at (because there wasn't a complaint / investigation), and it's flagging things that should be reviewed. It's a positive step

    What we should look into for this program is

    • how the flags are being set, and what kind of interaction will warrant a flag
    • what changes are made to training as a result of this data
    • how the privacy is being handled, and where the data is going (ex. Don't use this footage to train some model, especially because not every interaction is out in the public)
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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What if all the cam footage was just uploaded to something like YouTube. Publicly visible by ya know, the very citizens that pay for it and work for...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    That feels like it would be a logistics and a just in general nightmare. Does every single individual have an account where they're forced to stream their footage? If not and it's all being uploaded to a single channel for a department, who's in charge of the task of uploading the footage? Who'd even be willing to spend their days doing nothing but uploading footage when your departments internal internet connection comes to a crawl speed because of the person(s) who has/have to upload the footage (because you just know they certainly ain't paying for them to have their own private network for this in most areas)?

    In theory it sounds great but in practice it just sounds like a nightmare. Not defending the police but it just doesn't seem like a task they'd be willing to take up because of all the work they'd have to put in to make sure it works.

    That, and the money they spend doing something like this could obviously be used on something more pressing, like shooting a black man because he didn't get down on the ground and worship the boots of the officer that killed him after being pulled over on suspicion of absolutely nothing (/s on this part)

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Ah, good. I had "racist profiling AILLM" on my 2024 bingo card

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Yes, because AI has a firm grasp on nuanced topics like law enforcement and civilian/human rights...

    You may as well play the video to an empty room.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    ITT: People who are scared of things they don't understand, which in this case is AI.

    In this case, the "AI" program is nothing more than pattern recognition software setting a timestamp where it believes there's something to be looked at. Then an officer can take a look.

    It saves so much time, and it filters out anything irrelevant. But be careful because it's labelled "AI". Scarry.

    EDIT: Comments to this comment confirms that you don't understand AI, because if you did, you'd know that this system who scans video is not a LLM (large language model). It's not even the same system in its core.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    This is an astonishingly bad take.

    Almost every AI system is a black box. Even if you open source the code and the training data, it's almost impossible to know anything about the current state of a machine learning model.

    So the entire premise here is that a completely unaccountable system - whose decisions are basically impossible to understand or scrutinize - gets to decide what data is or isn't relevant.

    When an AI says "No crime spotted here", who gets to even know that it did that? If a human is reviewing all of the footage, then why have the AI? You're doing the same amount of human work anyway. So as soon as you introduce this system, you remove a huge amount of human oversight, and replace it with decisions that dramatically affect human lives - that could potentially be life or death if it's the difference between a bad cop being taken off the street or not - being made by a completely unaccountable system.

    Whose to say if the training data fed into this system results in it, say, becoming effectively blind to police violence against black people?

    And if that doesn't scare you, it absolutely should.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    And I'm sure the criminal acts by police will get filtered out.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I wonder if it's one of those AI that can't see darker skin colors...

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  • [+] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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