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

  • historicaldocuments@lemmy.world
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    19 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?