Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  To steal a comment:

  [W]e’re seeing the first instances of what reality looks like with AI in the hands of the average bear. Just like the excuse was “but the computer said it was correct,” now we’re just shifting to “but the AI said it was correct.”

  Don’t underestimate how much authority and thinking people will delegate to machines. Not to mention the lengths they’ll go to weasel out of taking responsibility for a screw up like this (saw another comment in this thread about the Chief of Police stepping down but it being framed as “retirement").

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• nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah the 5 months thing… That’s the difference between having a $400/hour lawyer and no lawyer. The first guy could get you out by 6:00 p.m. on bail. If you have no lawyer, your appointment to be assigned lawyer is scheduled for next month.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  and a failed system abdicating using any thought

  So the whole government at this point. Idiocracy was supposed to be funny fiction not depressing reality.

  Why did it take 5 months to even interview her? What the fuck it’s happening in US jails.

  Money and profits in that order.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For the umpteenth fucking time, this is not “Idiocracy!”

    In Idiocracy, the people were stupid, but honest. This is not that. This is malicious, which is worse.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Give us a better correlation then.

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I suddenly realize you may have thought I was criticizing you, individually. Just so you know, that’s not what I intended: I meant it as a general reaction to seeing that comparison made over and over again, and your instance of it just happened to be the one I attached it to.

        Sorry about that.

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Idiocracy is about what happens after the current time when smarter more level headed people are trying to put the pieces back together. We are in the prequel era, things are going to get worse before they get better.

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