• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    8 days ago

    With the help of artificial intelligence, technology can dip into online conversations and immediately notify both school officials and law enforcement.

    Not sure what’s worse here: how the police overreacted or that the software immediately contacts law enforcement, without letting teachers (n.b.: they are the experts here, not the police) go through the positives first.

    But oh, that would mean having to pay somebody, at least some extra hours, in addition to the no doubt expensive software. JFC.

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Not sure what’s worse here: how the police overreacted or that the software immediately contacts law enforcement, without letting teachers (n.b.: they are the professionals here, not the police) go through the positives first.

      The idea behind the policy is to stop school shootings. If there were a legitimate threat of violence, you would likely want the police to be notified as soon as possible. The issue here is that the authorities are letting a piece of half-ass code (Read: AI) decide what is a legitimate threat and, worse still, acting on that determination without question.

      They have literally sacrificed an essential freedom for some temporary, and probably illusory, security.

      • 6nk06@sh.itjust.works
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        8 days ago

        the policy is to stop school shootings

        You should try Europe once. It’s more fun than your 3rd world country.

            • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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              “Daily murder” is a sneaky rhetorical maneuver, considering it’s something influenced more by raw population size, than by capita. It’s easy for there to be a “daily murder” in a country of 340,000,000 people, even when the overwhelmingly vast majority of people do not murder.

              Using “few” to trivialize/minimize the racism is no better.

              Shame on you for this disingenuity.

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                Even when we go per capita the US stays a shithole, it’s not like they were trying to actively misinform people.