Comment on AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test

Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Earlier this year, investors filed a class-action lawsuit, accusing company executives of overstating the devices’ capabilities and claiming that “Evolv does not reliably detect knives or guns.”

  It’s fraud. The company knows it’s unreliable and the investors know it’s unreliable, I wonder why NYC is still going to expand the trial run? 🤔

  [Mayor] Adams has touted the Massachusetts-based company since taking office in 2022.

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  • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They found a scam to replace stop & frisk.

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  • gt5@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To be fair, he’s also a former cop. He’s also under indictment for fraud so take that for what it’s worth

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• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  TSA… security theater for the low, low price to taxpayer of $11.2 BILLION dollars

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• Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No, no. We just need to keep using it! It just needs a bigger sample. Surely, we’ll find a weapon, eventually!

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s the TSA for the subway!

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    • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I dunno, does the scanner grope you and steal stuff from your baggage?

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      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If your dildo looks remotely like a gun, it might come after you.

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• Doorbook@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  more tax dollars stolen

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  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    All personal income taxation is theft.

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• cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not exactly, no. From other comments, it also have an incredibly high false positive rate, so it’s negative security.

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