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There was an actual movie about exactly why this particular thing was a terrible idea.
Literally Minority Report.
And that one Futurama episode
With even more Scientology I'm sure, somehow.
There's actually a subtle knock on Scientology that I think even Tom Cruise missed in that film. The drug he's addicted to that ruins his life is called 'Clarity.'
Missed that one, good catch!
Tech guy here.
This is a tech-flavored smokescreen to avoid responsibility for misapplied law enforcement.
By innate definition, everyone has the potential for criminality, especially those applying and enforcing the law; as a matter of fact, not even the ai is above the law unless that's somehow changing. We need a lot of things on Earth first, like an IoT consortium for example, but an ai bill of rights in the US or EU should hopefully set a precedent for the rest of the world.
The AI is a pile of applied stastistic models. The humans in charge of training it, testing it and acting on its input have full control and responsibility for anything that comes out of it. Personifying or otherwise separating an AI system from being the will of its controllers is dangerous as it erodes responsibility.
Racist cops have used "I go where the crime is" as an exuse to basically hunt minorities for sport. Do not allow them to say "the AI model said this was efficient" and pretend it is not their own full and knowing bias directing them.
That's already tried. In the end the AI is just an electronic version of existing police biases.
Police files more reports and arrests in poor neighborhoods because they patrol more there. Reports get used as training data and AI predicts more crime in poor areas. Those areas now get over patrolled and the tension leads to more crime. The system is celebrated for being correct.
You make it sound like a bug instead of a feature. But for the capitalist ruling class it is working exactly as intended.
We're living in a fucking Futurama episode now.
Except everything is a Lovecraftian horror instead of benignly amusing
Part of the problem with this approach is that prediction engines are predicted on the idea that there's more of a thing to predict.
So unless they really, really go out of their way with modeling the records to account for this, they'll have a system very strongly biased towards predicting more criminal behavior for everyone fed into it.
And biased towards replicating the existing history of arrests and convictions it is trained on
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Disappointing. Any reason to believe this might be a mistake or an outlier? I was just starting to seriously consider adding mbfc to the usual set of tools I depend on online.
just block that not it has dubious ratings and is honestly an eye sore.
Honestly, I'm blocking it simply because I'm tired of opening a thread thinking there's a seed of discussion, and it's just MBFC bot. Will probably do the same with AutoTLDR. This isn't working; comments might be the wrong interface for this.