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submitted 10 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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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[-] Colloidal@programming.dev 35 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Hirom@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

Eating Doritos while black

[-] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

Edit:

This looks fake as fuck lol

[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 2 points 10 months ago

I like the date and time, personally. We time travelers now?

[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 4 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 11 points 10 months ago

I wonder how much the student will get in the lawsuit.

[-] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 months ago

0 dollars. Police beat the shit out of students all the time

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] 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.”

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 7 points 10 months ago
[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

The actual dumbest timeline

[-] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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!

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago

It kind of makes sense. Too much of that shit can kill you.

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