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[–] [email protected] 87 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

10% false positives is an enormous rate given how Police like to ‘find’ evidence and ‘elicit’ confessions.

[–] spankmonkey 33 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

It isn't predicting individual crimes, just pattern recognition and extrapolation like how the weather is predicted.

"There are on average 4 shootings in November in this general area so there probably will be 4 again this year." is the kind of prediction that AI is making.

[–] Death_Equity 14 points 16 hours ago

Predictions with hallucinations is exactly how an effective justice system works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

So they are using it to try and decide on deployment?

If that is all they're using it for I guess it isn't too bad. As long as it isn't accusing individuals of planning to commit a crime with a zero evidence.

[–] spankmonkey 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

It is probably going to be used to justify the disproportionate police attention paid to minority communities and to justify activities similar to stop and frisk.

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