Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.

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Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers breaking the law in its first 3 days.
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Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.::An AI camera system installed along a major road in England caught 300 offenses in its first 3 days.There were 180 seat belt offenses and 117 mobile phone

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Calling an image recognition system a robot enforcing the law is such a stretch you're going to pull a muscle.

It's going to disproportionately target minorities. ML* isn't some wonderful impartial observer, it's subject to all the same biases as the people who made it. Whether the people at the end of the process are impartial or not barely matters either imo, they're going to get the biased results of the ML looking for criminals so it's still going to be a flawed system even if the human element is OK. Ffs please don't support this kind of dystopian shit, Idk how it's not completely obvious how horrifying this stuff is

*what people call AI is not intelligent at all. It uses machine learning, the same process as chatbots and autocorrect. AI is a buzzword used by tech bros who are desperate to "invest in the future"

The image recognition system detects a cell phone being used and snaps a photo, records the plate number, etc. How exactly does that lead to racism?

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