Understandably there’s great concern about the reliability of the facial recognition system the police and others intend to roll out in security cameras in order to catch villains. These systems aren’t 100 per cent reliable by a considerable margin. There’s thus a real possibility of wrongful arrest. A few years ago one of the tech companies in America because infamous with people calling for the scientists working in the area to be more diverse after its pattern recognition system identified Black people as gorillas. People are also worried about the effect AI is having on journalism and literature now that it is increasingly being used in these areas. Most of this concern centres around them replacing real, human journos and writers. But, as this report from Daily Dose of Democracy shows, they may also include sheer nonsense in very serious reports.
This story is funny, but it’s implications aren’t.
‘An AI-generated police report claimed a cop transformed into a frog during a routine traffic stop in Utah
Look, let’s not, uh, jump to conclusions here. Sure, the Herber Police Department’s explanation — that their AI system mistakenly folded in dialogue from the Disney movie “The Princess and the Frog” into a police report because the movie was playing in the background as an officer’s body camera was recording — certainly sounds plausible, but everyone knows there’s no substitute for good, old-fashioned police work. A full investigation is clearly merited here. Who’s to say the officer in question isn’t a shape-shifter, of royal bloodlines, and/or under the curse of a villainous doctor? Anyway, speaking of artificial intelligence…’
Beastrabban\'s Weblog 