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I mean pretty stupid to write that in the schools chat app, use signal or shit just regular iMessage
Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations
Submitted 7 months ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
https://fortune.com/2025/08/07/schools-ai-surveillance-students-children-arrested-jokes/
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Cornpop@lemmy.world 7 months ago
bigFab@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Apparently another one got arrested within hours of a Snapchat too.
Cornpop@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Damn kids gotta make everything public these days lol
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Anything with a very low rate of true positives applied to a large population is going to have an insane false positive rate. EG a 1 in 7M issue applied to 70M students with a 1% false positive rate would produce 700k false positives. Worse people who are actually planning a school shooting may be more likely to avoid telegraphing their intentions. So you could damage 700k kids futures and traumatize them without even catching many or any of the killers.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The world is turning into one giant shitty customer service experience.
Pjonathan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Shouldn’t they have used AI to collect the messages and then have a human manually intervene?
Pjonathan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Some good news here is that if they apply this to society as a whole the jails would be too full, keep saying the no-no words online!
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 7 months ago
when we’re saying that if the group chat leaks, we end up in prison, it seems like it was true
Pjonathan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
When the memes become real life
hark@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was already glad being out of school before widespread take-home laptops and required after-school logging in to check for homework and shit, but this AI-driven surveillance is on a whole other level. Sometimes I’m wondering if it’s just me getting old and doing the old people thing thinking things were better “back in the day” but is this current state not objectively worse, being monitored so much and having no way to really disconnect from school?
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
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Insane_Turnip@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is this a Paranoia reference out in the wild? Amazing. Well done!
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Its not a technology issue, its a capitalism issue.
Idealy, people should be able to afford their own devices and just log in via a browser, but capitalism fucks everyone and kids are too poor to have their own laptop and has to use the school-issued one which is obviously managed and surveilled because they can’t have you watching porn on it.
Also, #SaveSnowDays, stop forcing an online meet if its snowing and they cant get to school, just let kids have a day off once in a while.
hark@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m no fan of capitalism, but nothing in it requires public schools to install surveillance software on laptops. This seems purely like an administration issue, which is often the source of problems in general, not just in schools, but also in other sectors like healthcare, where they put in stupid policies while sucking up funding for themselves and their pet issues instead of towards the core purpose of that sector.
Agreed on the snow days. In fact, I think we should reduce the number of school days (and work days, for that matter) in general.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Sounds more like they are maybe using ML classifiers on all the communications they are spying on by conventional means. To me that’s not the same as using AI to spy but whatever.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Isn’t this the plot of Shimoneta?
LabelBox@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Government goes for all it can get… until people start revolting
BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Thought control
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 7 months ago
The whole trend of teens rejecting phones for dumbphones is making sense now. If you can’t fight big mainstream technology, then fuck big mainstream technology!
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 7 months ago
and then it’s even worse, you go through sms which is even less confidential
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 7 months ago
…In a way yes, in a way no. A phone that’s SMS and Calls only has a few advantages. One is that other apps can’t spy on SMS because there aren’t other apps to spy on the SMS. The SMS vulnerabilities en-route still exist, sure, but you’re no longer being monitored by Apple, Google or anyone else by default.
Sure, the ideal situation is for all of them to get on Signal, XMPP, Briar, SimpleX… fucking roll a D20. They’re all better than the choice they’ll actually pick.
cannon_annon88@lemmy.today 7 months ago
As soon as my pixel 8 shits the bed I’m going back to a dumbphone
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 7 months ago
I’m gonna snag another used Oneplus phone that has decent community love and keep rolling custom roms until Google stops me.
…and once they stop me(in ten years or so), a dumphone with tethering and a secondary device. And if they implant a chip into my brain, I’ll go luddite, live in the woods, read poetry and eat mushrooms.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
What is sad is that an environment like this ruins someone’s mental health and ironically increasing the overall risk of violence.
belit_deg@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don’t remember whose quote it was, maybe Hannah Arendt, that the real tragedy of tyranny is not when people self-censor what they say out loud, but when this leads them to filter out those thoughts from arising at all
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Then, those in charge can criminalise you.
arararagi@ani.social 7 months ago
That’s the surveillance panopticon, they know they are being watched, but not when.
Kissaki@feddit.org 7 months ago
no paywall archive.md/1lSRA
I got a captcha on the archive, but was able to read the original just fine. I guess archives are not necessarily lower barrier.
Kissaki@feddit.org 7 months ago
“I wish that was treated as a teachable moment, not a law enforcement moment,” said Patterson.
Seems like the Gaggle CEO has a good view. They’re still an enabler in these situations. Be it poor guidance or training. With the impact they have, taking responsibility would be tracking and ceasing contracts that do not follow this soft response approach.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Human nature dictates we do things before we discuss if we should do things.
To me it starts getting into a philosophical discussion but unfortunately I don’t think as a species we are mature enough yet to have these discussions.
A good real world example of this is in Canada the separation movement by Quebec vs. Alberta. In Quebec there have been years of open public discussion before they ultimately took a vote. They were painfully away of all the nuance that came from leaving Canada. They did it right to a large extent. Compare that to Daniella Smith in Alberta and she’s hammering through the mechanisms for a vote to happen meanwhile the public has absolutely no understanding of the ramifications of if they do vote to leave Canada. They’re doing it wrong.
Human nature by default seems to want to change the front tyre while doing 120 on the highway. This needs to change.
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Imagine it’s 1995 and you’re an average person. You don’t know all that much about separation, you just know that the coming referendum is about it and you don’t want to separate. You likely are not a college/university graduate and a significant amount of the people you know haven’t even graduated high school. You probably don’t have a personal computer or internet access even if you do. Your primary news source is likely the odd updates you get on the radio while driving to or from work, and you haven’t been following and aren’t familiar with how people talk about separation. You show up to vote and you get this question:
Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political partnership within the scope of the bill respecting the future of Quebec and of the agreement signed on June 12, 1995?
French:
Acceptez-vous que le Québec devienne souverain, après avoir offert formellement au Canada un nouveau partenariat économique et politique, dans le cadre du projet de loi sur l’avenir du Québec et de l’entente signée le 12 juin 1995?What the hell are you even voting for or against here?
The Québec referendum on separation was so confusing people remarked they didn’t actually know what they were voting for. The situation resulted in a law (Clarity Act) that forced all secession votes to pass some tests to be considered valid, and also indicated that a secession requires amendment of the Constitution of Canada, which makes it incredibly difficult to actually do.
I really don’t want to give Québec undeserved credit on this, they handled it quite poorly tbh and the whole thing felt like it was exploiting the ignorance and anger of a minority population that had even less education and literacy than the average Canadian at the time. That said, Canada has since devolved further into being a neoliberal anglosohere shithole so perhaps they were on to something.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Ha, its now a crime for kids to say dumb shit. Messed up, but its genius really, raising a generation who’s afraid to say anything that even vaguely rocks the boat and will go along with whatever the status quo enforced by social media is.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Yeah for sure. my friends and I were completely paranoid about stuff like that.
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I cannot possibly imagine trusting a school issued device.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 7 months ago
We are living in the shittiest kind of cyberpunk dystopia. Can’t wait for AI-induced cyber-psychosis once people implant Musk’s chips into their brains and give MechaHitler full access to their subconscious.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
The good news is newer chips go on the OUTSIDE of your head because it turns out, you can’t market brain surgery
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 7 months ago
LOL the land of the free.
redhat421@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“… Whoever told you that is your enemy”
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Think it’s the same people that talk about our glorious western democratic values™️.
You know, keeping those pesky refugees out, supporting genocide and wars.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 7 months ago
More free child labor in jails.
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 7 months ago
We all know teachers are the laziest people known to man…
5too@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Teachers are generally awesome. But school boards and superintendents are almost stereotypically control freaks; and that’s who sets this stuff up. There are plenty of good ones too, but it’s not nearly as selfless a group as teachers.
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 7 months ago
I was kinda being ironic… but yep
redwattlebird@lemmings.world 7 months ago
WTF America?
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Surprised from that shithole?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Talking about online privacy has become the “safe sex talk” of the last decade or so. You have to keep reminding kids so that it sticks. Nothing you say online is private, it can all be copied/screengrabbed/recorded/photographed and shared by the recipient. What you say, any images you post, etc. On school or work devices they can essentially see most everything, nothing is private. Even if you make efforts to cover your tracks, a truly determined agency with enough resources likely will find out who you are if they want to.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Nothing you say online is private, it can all be copied/screengrabbed/recorded/photographed and shared by the recipient.
Even if you fully trust the recipient, often times it can still be intercepted unless it’s end-to-end encrypted, but even then the end device can still be stolen too.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 months ago
The next few years is going to be like the time Post Office employees were hounded and had their lives destroyed over what was later found to be a software fault and not mass Human corruption, but on a far grander scale.
2910000@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Students who think they are chatting privately among friends often do not realize they are under constant surveillance
This is the problem
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Yea, if nothing else hopefully this will make at least a few kids think about online privacy.
kalkulat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lots of wannabe authoritarians out there in educationland.
krunklom@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I couldn’t agree more.
It’s fucking pathetic.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Citizen! Good news! Your writings have been randomly selected by Friend Computer for review!
A select team of Troubleshooters has been dispatched to bathe your general area in soothing Raytheon ^™^ Brain Beams until your attitude improves.
FuckFascism@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So the police sexually assaulted a minor?
wuffah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What a great way to prepare students for our AI enabled social media and digital surveillance society. Take note kids, trust no one!
PokerChips@programming.dev 7 months ago
This is also why (I think) that younger people don’t like going outside. Cameras are everywhere. There’s no privacy. We’ve become a world of creeps. Not really for the most of us. But if I was 10 years old I’d think everyone as creeps.
Now corporations are forcibly creeping into the classrooms. Yuck!