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New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human (www.shreveporttimes.com)
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[–] timeghost@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The people responding to emergencies will be notified by AI slop with no human filter.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 2 days ago

It sounds like that's a better alternative than what they had before though, no?

Side note: either I'm wildly misunderstanding something in the article, or a BIG majority of commenters here didn't actually read it. I'd expect some amount of the latter, but it really seems disproportionate here.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I said, "setting aside the obvious!" Besides that issue and a handful of others, it should be fine.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Aside from the fact that it obviously won't work worth a shit, I guess nothing?