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Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools (www.motherjones.com)
submitted 1 day ago by AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No way.

[โ€“] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The headline is a bit misleading. This isn't run of the mill dystopia. Police in Indiana are using AI software to write reports for them based on AI analysis of body cam footage. AI hallucinations are then inserted into police reports. Then the false reports that contain information about events that never happened are being submitted to courts without being verified

Once an AI hallucination is on record as a documented event, it becomes difficult to remove it from the record, and it can ruin people's lives.