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.
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Sense offender!
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
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.
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’ll say this once and slowly… FUCK. THE. POLICE.
How about you say it twice?
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.
Absolutely unaccountable. Is that different where you are?
Checking in from a state in the south. Naw it is the same. Just fewer people snooping around asking questions. My area was big on Live PD and part of the downfall of the show.
It does seem different where I live (NOLA) but we have a whole different situation here w/r/t policing in terms of staffing and budgets and even demographics/culture. They’re also operating under a consent decree so apparently not that unaccountable.
What is baffling to me is that the people of NYC made a police captain their mayor.
Well with marjuana becoming legal in more and more places the police need a new way to generate probable cause on demand.
Suckers.
Wait till they start murdering innoc-- no wait they already do that.
If they actually found a way to predict the future, they should put it to use in the stock market, not sell the tech to cops. Way more money that way.
Honestly, detecting criminals in the stock market isn’t a bad idea, the problem is they all are.
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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.
It’s definitely going to turn out well.
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.
This is literally the plot of Watch Dogs.
“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.”
