• 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.

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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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            8 days ago

            “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.