Data scientist here; there simply are not enough murders to model this, so they will need to use proxies for “likely” murderers (like any sort of violent crime). That means the model will very strongly target people who are over-policed (minorities) and those more likely to actually get caught and charged for things, and thus be in the training data set (poor people). It will also fail spectacularly for this purpose because even a highly accurate model will produce almost 100% false positives -again, because actual murders are so vanishingly rare. The math just doesn’t work.
I give it two seconds to turn into racism machine
And those two seconds are just the boot sequence.
Guilty until proven innocent.
It’s how the police view you anyway.
Pretty easy to prove you didn’t commit a crime that hasn’t happened, no?
Yes just tell the pig that you did not do it and he will release you
Oh, I’ve seen this one. where’s scientology Tom in this episode?
Or the bald predictor gals laying in water?
The precogs were FMM. They were named after famous crime fiction authors, Agatha (Christie), Dash (Dashiell Hammett), and Arthur (Conan Doyle).
Didn’t know that, that’s cool!
Is this turning into minority report in real life?
We are living the plot from PsychoPass
I shit you not, my mom literally just was talking about that anime and joking about it with me last night. I think it’s because we were talking about police anime.
Like if I knew Lemmy didn’t have an algorithm, I’d think this shit was targeted.
What can go wrong?
Right? No way this could possibly backfire. Unless, of course, that’s the intended outcome.
It’s typical of the neolib Labour party.
They’ve recently reintroduced legislation for digital IDs, just as they did the previous time they were in govt (prior to 2010).
We also have police stepping up unregulated use of facial reignition camera on the streets
They are obsessed with authoritarianism.
Let me guess: Palantir
Healthcare CEOs at the top of the list.
if the model is working correctly it indeed must point us towards billionaires
Will this drive the first wrongfully accused person to suicide or will it just somehow, magically, target all brown and black people? Stay tuned to see how much taxpayer money gets sunk into this tool.
Welcome to our over-securitized late stage capitalist hellscape. All so companies can push out these bogus ‘tools’ and eat more of the state budget and profit like the crony capitalists they are. Not the first time. First as a tragedy, second as a farce.
Prediction: this gets used to surveil dissidents and minorities disproportionately.
Psycho Pass called, you missed its point
“UK developing new hybrid non lethal/lethal weapon that will use murder risk prediction score to select operating mode. This amazing invention will cut down on police related deaths, learn more tonight on BBC.”
I swear the UK is as dystopian as the US and even worse in a lot of ways.
I swear the UK is as dystopian as the US and even worse in a lot of ways.
Why do you think they wanted Brexit? Now they can apply all their demented ideas to their country freely.
I, for one, haven’t set foot there since Brexit officially concluded. Shame that I have friends there but, I hear it’s becoming worse by the day anyways.
I swear the UK is as dystopian as the US and even worse in a lot of ways.
It literally always has been and that fact is why the US even exists.
Good point, didn’t think about it like that haha
Ah yes, the good old way of throwing electromagnetic waves at people after putting their cymatic scans inside a shared pool of neutrally and selected shared consciousness of dissected sociopaths brains.
I didn’t have it on my Bingo card.
