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Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon (www.dexerto.com)
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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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[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 3 points 10 months ago

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

Cop: “That’s a crime in these parts.”

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