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Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon

Concerns over AI surveillance in schools are intensifying after armed officers swarmed a 16-year-old student outside Kenwood High School in Baltimore when an AI gun detection system falsely flagged a Doritos bag as a firearm.

Allen was handcuffed at gunpoint. Police later showed him the AI-captured image that triggered the alert. The crumpled Doritos bag in his pocket had been mistaken for a gun.

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the system “functioned as intended,” [...] Baltimore County Public Schools echoed the company’s statement

"We want a system that sends armed cops primed to kill a black student", says the community elected school board. "We believe that's what our racist constituents want", they continued.

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It sure looked like a gun in the message, assuming that was the image that was sent out and not a dramatisation.

Also, I think it worked exactly how it was supposed to. It SWATted a person of colour. Par for the course. As it was trained to do.

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lemmy.ml

I think that's a dramatization, based on the subtitle there

Edit:

This looks fake as fuck lol

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That is a marketing image from the gun-identifying software company and isn’t actually related to the article.

The article said he was outside and the crumpled bag of Doritos was hanging out of his pocket. He wasn’t brandishing it like a firearm.

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It's unjust to force children and Teens to go to schools that use these creepy tools. They must be removed before a student gets killed by cops because of it

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They'll just say that kids getting shot by the cops is worth it to prevent kids shooting each other.

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This is awful, but if we're going to do futuristic dystopia, we should have more fun with it. Along those lines, it should have been a bag of Cheetos for being "dangerously cheesy."

This infringement on civil rights brought to you by Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of Pepsi Co., and chewers like you.

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This man’s crime? Still has Dorito dust on his fingers.

Cop: “That’s a crime in these parts.”

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lemmy.world

I remember when Henrietta police did this with an umbrella. Didn't even need AI.

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You know that vintage meme you'd see hanging on pub walls: "drink coffee! Do stupid things faster and with more energy!"?

I guess ai surveillance is like that but for police ineptitude. Goody!

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