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One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

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  1. freddealmeida · · focus · HN ↗
    Flock did not put the woman in jail. The police and DA put her in Jail. This is not a failure of the technology (do they have confidence levels?). This is a failure of how police are outsourcing their reasoning and decision making to an AI camera service that seems to fail at the tail.
    1. p-e-w · · focus · HN ↗
      Indeed. It’s insane to see these arguments implying the contrary. The institution committing the violence is the one responsible for the outcome.

      If a random person walks into a police station and accuses a random stranger of murder, and the police put that stranger in jail based on that alone, the main problem is not the accuser.

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