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    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.

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    9 hours ago

    Doritos, This much flavor should be illegal.

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

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    11 hours ago

    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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    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?

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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?

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          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.

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        12 hours ago

        That’s unironically already been happening in Gaza for years now, and will now happen everywhere Palantir is used.

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      They probably just trusted the AI. Like everyone else is doing for some reason.

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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)?

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      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…

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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.

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      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.

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        12 hours ago

        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.

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

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    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.