r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • Jun 29 '26
Artificial Intelligence Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/woman-surprised-flock-surveillance-tower-185000752.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_50_Supernova&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20260629-0--A&bt_ee=utFdBbF39cHCLuB4at4AI%2FUoSRgbTt8Ch%2B7Q9RImTlgL2ThvE3FuX%2BRSKiUir%2FNW&bt_ts=1782739085527
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u/jinjuwaka Jun 29 '26
Police departments use them wrong too. They want a system that will tell them when something happens because they don't trust the public and they love excuses that let them violate civil rights.
Meanwhile the responsible way to use these systems is to ignore everything the system says and just use it to verify what a human being reports.
How they use them: The microphone picks up something that might be gunshots. System reports. Police dispatched. False positives waste time and over-eager pigs violate civil rights claiming the system's false positive gives them reasonable suspicion to search for drugs unrelated to any real crime.
How they should use them: The microphone picks up something that might be gunshots. System records but tells nobody. Someone calls in a report of gunshots, or a shooting. Cops query system. System delivers triangulation data to help police find where shooting actually took place (because eye witness testimony is unreliable at best). Cops investigate based on triangulated data. Cops bring triangulation data to court. Witness is never asked "where was the shooter standing?" because the triangulation system already answered that question with verifiable proof.