this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
61 points (95.5% liked)

Technology

59219 readers
4492 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
61
Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes – The Markup (themarkup.org)
submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time

top 4 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 1bluepixel@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you know, every sci-fi movie ever on the topic was right.

[–] pazukaza@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I'm so grateful for living in a society that lacks this technology. Imagine being arrested out of nowhere because a machine said you were going to do something bad in a year from now.

Hell, imagine not even knowing what you were going to do, but the algorithm said so.

[–] redknight942@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

minority report

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

they're selling hype, not software