Comment on Police departments are using AI to review bodycam footage, and police unions are not happy about it
Dukeofdummies@kbin.social 9 months ago
I am so confused by this, why does there need to be AI involved in this at all?
If somebody has a complaint, pull the footage, then the plaintiff goes over the footage and makes their case against the police officer. Why would an AI be necessary to find complaints that are not being complained about?
I feel like it's a technology solution for what should be a "more transparency and a better system" solution. Make complaints easier and reduce the fear factor of making complaints.
I’m just theorising how AI could be used, but consider the situation where someone makes a complaint, but doesn’t remember the exact time of the incident (say they remember it was within a six hour time frame for this example), or what the officer looked like.
You have 20 officers on duty it could be potentially be, in a six hour time frame, that’s 120 hours or 5 days of footage. An AI can use facial recognition to find the complainant within minutes.
bhmnscmm@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The people most likely to be abused by police are the least likely to be able or willing to file a formal complaint.
Dukeofdummies@kbin.social 9 months ago
So fix that. Don't make an AI to dole out justice against police like some messed up lottery. This is such a hollow solution in my mind. AI struggles to identify a motorcycle, people expect it to identify abuse?
quirzle@kbin.social 9 months ago
Were it so simple, it would have been fixed decades ago. The difference is that having AI review the footage is actually plausible.
Dukeofdummies@kbin.social 9 months ago
Until you realize that the people who make the final decision on whether something the AI saw is indeed too far or extreme are the exact same people making the decision now and all we've succeeded in doing is creating a million dollar system that makes it look like they're trying to change.