NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals::The New York Police Department paid Voyager Labs more than $8 million in 2018. The company says it uses AI to analyze criminal behavior online.
Reference to Tom cruise movie or other dystopia cyberpunk movie goes here
Ooh, ooh. I’ll play.
Minority Report
Are we all going to have to remove our eyes now? Because I’ve got shit to do.
Where are all the holo screens I was promised?
Never seen it. I thought it was a reference to the two people in pools that poop magic 8-ball readings from The Venture Bros.
Police departments have a long history of wasting shitloads of money on stuff that doesn’t work, like voice stress analysis.
We can only hope
Well with marjuana becoming legal in more and more places the police need a new way to generate probable cause on demand.
I’ll say this once and slowly… FUCK. THE. POLICE.
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How about you say it twice?
This is absolutely the best time to start a AI business.
Go ahead. Sell it to morons. Make that paper.
If they get even more excited, say blockchain and see if they bite. And if they do… you know you got yourself a nice payday.
It also kidnapped triplets and uses they’re precognitive capabilities to solve pre-crimes.
Do people in NYC think the NYPD is weirdly bloated? I don’t live there but, obviously, I get exposed to NYC’s local news whether I want it or not and the NYPD just seems unaccountable and way more involved in politics and graft than other cities’ police departments.
What is baffling to me is that the people of NYC made a police captain their mayor.
Did we learn NOTHING from Minority Report???
Yes, they report the minorities.
“DID YOU HIDE THE MINORITY REPORT? I WANT THE TRUTH!”
“YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!”
I can easily undercut their price by predicting every young male in all the poor neighbourhoods.
That would be profiling. You see, what this does is it uses a ton of input data and AI to determine who they think is most likely to commit all sorts of minor crimes we’ve codified to disproportionately target poor and minority suspects.
Suckers.
“Sir, are these your shitposts?”
Uhhhh….
“Okay sir, these memes will lead to nuclear war, so you will need to become a particular individual in jail.”Are we at psycho pass levels yet?
Mmm let me see . Nope. Still white
Ooooh I really hope they scam them out of their money. This would be a perfect opportunity to hook the NYPD on crypto too. /s
This can only end in more institutionalized racism and other forms of oppression by the NYPD.
The problem is that the scam will hurt a lot of innocent people along the way. They won’t produce any actually useful data, but they will false flag a whole bunch of accounts, most likely on the basis of racial profiling or supporting unions. Y’know, the usual stuff.
The moment you realise America has become the worlds Florida(man).
Ah, I see we’re creating the Torment Nexus once again.
