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

• 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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      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The burden of proof is on the state

        Do you like know anything about how our system works? People get slapped with frivolous tickets and lawsuits every day, and cops don’t have to deal with shit from it.

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      • 31337@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In the Texas counties I’m most familiar with, if you’re arrested and they don’t have a good case, they just keep resetting court dates for years instead of going ahead with the process. If you can’t afford a bond, you’ll be in jail that whole time (which pressures people to take plea deals), if you can secure a bond, you’re out, but with limited rights and a whole lot of hassles to deal with.

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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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