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• False positives are a feature, not a bug.

  The police will always take any excuse to justify their love for unlawful searches and seizures.

  That is the reason why they don’t take any extra steps to confirm the information is correct, because they view it as the perfect alibi for their many crimes and constitutional violations - the AI made me do it.

  on Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026

• If anyone bothered to read the article, it’s not nearly as stupid as it sounds. That’s not to say it’s a good idea, just that not nearly as dumb as people are making it out to be.

  It’s designed specifically to handle multiple callers who are calling about existing/known incidents, as a tool to relieve human operators, and simply gather additional details, or provide information to the callers.

  So while I can’t say that I’m in favor of it, the actual scope of deployment is much different than what the headline would have you believe.

  on New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026