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Chatbots offer cops the “ultimate out” to spin police reports, expert says (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here's a great example of dystopian tech being rolled out without guardrails. Brought to you by Axos, which you may know as the company that rebranded after Taser became a liability as a name.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

So, all those videos where the cops are screaming "Stop resisting!" to some person who is laid out on the ground, not moving and not resisting, piled onto with eight cops holding them down - I'm sure the AI chatbot notices and notes down all that nuance, right?

Relying exclusively on body camera audio—not video

Oops, guess not .... :(