Comment on Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech

• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you think committing a crime is the only time this matters?

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, this is texas.

    Imagine being a perfectly normal cishet woman.

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    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sad, but true

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  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not too long ago Texas was trying to charge parents of trans youths with child abuse.

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  • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, also probably when the AI pattern matches your behavior to a criminal’s behavior because you live in the same neighborhood.

    Again I’m not saying this isn’t bad, I’m saying Texas has no idea what they bought or how to use it. The only practical way to use it is the way the feds do, and if they try the AI shit it will likely fuck them legally speaking at the federal level OR orange Julius wins and the NSA starts just giving this shit to Texas, so this will all be moot.

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    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think you have any idea what you’re talking about. This is exactly the kind of thing AI is good at, pattern recognition.

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      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Good at avoiding false-negatives, not so good at avoiding false-positives. IMHO a 1% false-positive rate is unacceptable when the result is ruining someones life.

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      • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        OK explain then. The AI flags you as a criminal and the cops give you a ticket for looking like a crim? The burden of proof is on the state. Now they have more 2x more shit to investigate which means more cop hours. Idk like I also hate the privacy aspect it this but it seems like a boondoggle that will also waste lots of taxpayer money and it would be good to attack it from two rhetorical angles.

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      • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Because of stupid fucking memes and whiny furry ‘artists’ all of lemmy thinks the greatest danger of AI is someone not getting paid for their drawn porn getting scraped.

        The REAL danger is AI can piece together nearly every aspect of your schedule, personality, income, pregnancy status, class, social circle, race, and medical history just by correlating anonymous data.

        It’s already happening, hell it already happened 15 years ago and now they are just that much better.

        But every FUCKDAMN top comment in this thread is a fucking joke or sarcasm

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• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Correlation is not causation. This only indicates a person is in the general area [during a crime] and not that they perpetrated it. People go to jail, wrongfully, with less evidence than this.

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  • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    they’re not going to use it as evidence in an arrest, they are going to use it to target social dissidents, which in Texas’s case, is everyone who isn’t a fascist.

    They know they can’t use it as evidence, but they also know ten thousand other cruel and vicious things they can get away with.

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