A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.

And the reason I was ID’d as a dangerous car thief was a simple data error made 2,000 miles away in California, creating an edge case within an edge case that Flock’s AI camera network was unable to handle

      • FoxAlive@lemmy.zip
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        15 days ago

        There are handfulls of cases before this one. One where a terrified cop was holding children at gun point because flock is useless and said that the car that they owned was stolen. Imagine if flock told the cops they had a gun, or that the kids where black. The cop would of killed kids and this would of been praised by mainstream media saying how flock stopped future crime that hasn’t happened yet and won’t bebheld accountable. They will go on about how this is an amazing technology, and that unfortunately the cop had to preemptively kill those kids, but it was all for the better of human kind. And if you don’t like that youre a terrorist.

        Wasn’t there a murder that a homeless man on reddit solved, yet flock could do literally nothing.

  • toast@retrolemmy.com
    36·
    18 days ago

    So glad someone in my town has been cutting these things down. We had fewer than a dozen to begin with, and now the only two that I’d personally seen are gone (just the roughly cut stump of the pole is left of one of them). I doubt the city will be looking to put in additional cameras.

  • historicaldocuments@lemmy.world
    18·
    18 days ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)

    There are so many timelines where this guy ends up dead or in jail. This timeline depended on his ability to get a rep from Jaguar on the phone on a weekend. I can kind of understand the four car response; the system kept dropping him and they finally had positive confirmation this was the car and where it was. I wonder how often clerical/technical errors happen and how early in the process they normally get caught. This could’ve ended as badly as some of the swatting cases have and started out much the same way: an input into a system drives a forceful output. It doesn’t matter to the recipient of the force if it was a prank, a malicious act by someone, or a glitch in the matrix. If someone dies because a bad actor swatted someone there are consequences. What are the consequences if the entire Flock system is pure happy path from lens to server?