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

  • toast@retrolemmy.com
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    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.