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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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[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Reference to Tom cruise movie or other dystopia cyberpunk movie goes here

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Are we all going to have to remove our eyes now? Because I've got shit to do.

[–] weedazz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Where are all the holo screens I was promised?

[–] kambusha@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago

Sense offender!

[–] wick@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

It also kidnapped triplets and uses they’re precognitive capabilities to solve pre-crimes.

[–] stereofony@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did we learn NOTHING from Minority Report????

[–] Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, they report the minorities.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

"DID YOU HIDE THE MINORITY REPORT? I WANT THE TRUTH!"

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

[–] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll say this once and slowly... FUCK. THE. POLICE.

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

How about you say it twice?

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Andy@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Absolutely unaccountable. Is that different where you are?

[–] GregoryTheGreat@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

What is baffling to me is that the people of NYC made a police captain their mayor.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Well with marjuana becoming legal in more and more places the police need a new way to generate probable cause on demand.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago

Wait till they start murdering innoc-- no wait they already do that.

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cyberwitch_7493@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, detecting criminals in the stock market isn't a bad idea, the problem is they all are.

[–] senoro@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can easily undercut their price by predicting every young male in all the poor neighbourhoods.

[–] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

It’s definitely going to turn out well.

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

This is literally the plot of Watch Dogs.

[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

“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.”

[–] Cyberwitch_7493@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are we at psycho pass levels yet?

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Mmm let me see . Nope. Still white

[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

...of course it's NYC. For as liberal NY is in general, the police are 1984 levels of nuts.

Even if you're not doing crime, they don't care. They will fly a drone over your backyard to make sure.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Ah, I see we're creating the Torment Nexus once again.

[–] What083329420@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The moment you realise America has become the worlds Florida(man).

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Please stop reifying things from cautionary tales.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I will continue to watch wheres981 swim through traffic as the NYC police fail to catch him for the 999999nth time lol.

[–] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

"Wait, you cannot escape. NEVER RUN AWAY FROM THE TIME POLICE, YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE."

[–] spiderman@ani.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Mudface@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just abandon social media, I cannot think of a single positive thing that could possibly come close to outweighing the incredible harm it can cause us, collectively and individually

[–] PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yet you’re still here…

[–] Mudface@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Likely not for long. I’m sure I’ll be banned from this instance within 90 days lol

[–] PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My point remains. You’re advising people to leave social media voluntarily while not doing so yourself.

[–] Mudface@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, that doesn’t make the point any less of a good one.

I tell my kids not to use drugs or drink all the time. Guess what I do?