US immigration enforcement used an AI-powered tool to scan social media posts "derogatory" to the US | "The government should not be using algorithms to scrutinize our social media posts"
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US immigration enforcement used an AI-powered tool to scan social media posts "derogatory" to the US | "The government should not be using algorithms to scrutinize our social media posts"::undefined
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I kind of feel that trawling social media looking for the words of potential mass shooters isn't going to be the thing that solves - or even slows down - the mass shooting problem that the USA has.
I think there is a huge difference between just scanning publicly available text posted to social media in general rather than immigration focus. A lot of these shooters post very public manifestoesque type comments, friends and families have even called the police in some cases and they take no action. It feels like the police actively ignore this stuff just to be able to shrug and protect 2a.
A number of these could have easily been stopped.
The real question is how many people post shit like that but then don't go on to hurt anyone.
I'm going to be a little glib here : Just fix this part and you won't need to scan social media posts.
Also, once this is in place you'll find that the majority of perpetrators - the ones who plan things out - won't post super incriminating things beforehand and their generally-disturbed posts will be lost in the sea of general discontent flagged by an algorithm trying to sift the wheat from the chaff.