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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. gentlerain · · focus · HN ↗
      True, this isn't about flock and it's not even about outsourcing reasoning.

      This is the good old police incompetence that you come across once in a while and shake your head.

      Where detectives lock on one angle of a case and completely refuse to entertain any other possible explanations

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