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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Are we sure it was just the bag of Doritos that the AI misclassified?
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).
I was workshopping the joke. Imo its the media that's gone crazy about everything and trump is largely playing along; his most successful job is as a reality tv host/actor.
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.
My principal saw Schrade Switch-It clipped to my pants and thought it was a pager, and sternly admonished me not to bring my "pager" to school anymore.
Righty-o, man, no pager, I told him. No problem.
What a toolbox.
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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.
That was the quote I was about to paste, like what the actual fuck? Traumatizing innocent teens is functioning as intended eh? Wonder how many of our tax dollars is going towards this? Actually I probably don't want to know...
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.
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.
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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?
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
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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.
Student afraid to return to school after AI sends police after him
that is quite a 21st century title
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.
Best thing is to use Open Source AI if people must since those are way better than the proprietary ones
Best best thing is to have fucking human oversight over a machine telling us something.
Sure, having (supposedly) unbiased model running without third-party opaque interference is great, but LLM will always be statistical machines, by design. Nothing it does have value if it's not checked by something that's smart enough, and aside from deterministic outcomes we can express with pure logic, that requires a human.
Very true and fully agree
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, . . .
That is what he said
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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
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