Crossposted from HackerNews
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.
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
threetwo witnesses who teleconferenced in andapproved the arrestwitnessed 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.
It was in his pocket, the pocket bulge was picked up as a probable gun.
Its cops. They just saw a black kid and figured they could plant a dime bag or a toy train after the fact.
They probably just trusted the AI. Like everyone else is doing for some reason.
Doritos, This much flavor should be illegal.
You’re welcome lays, I’ll take $200k for the idea.
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?
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.
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.
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…
Could’ve been killed :( (Since they had guns drawn out)
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.
Student afraid to return to school after AI sends police after him
that is quite a 21st century title
Cops not thinking and reliant on system to judge is how we get to psycho pass timeline
Look out! He’s got a whole bag full of ninja throwing triangles!
its the same thing light yagami used to hide a tv, so he can MURDER people with the notebook.
I once mistook a bag of Doritos for the president of the USA…no, wait…it was a bag of Cheetos…wait, no, actually it was one Cheeto, one GIGANTIC Cheeto (I think?!)
… Why did dexerto file this under “Entertainment”
Arguably it is hilariously stupid.
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.
