School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn't an error
- "Along similar lines, Seminole County Public Schools (SCPS) communications officer, Katherine Crnkovich, emphasized in an email to Ars to “please make sure it is noted that this student wasn’t simply carrying a clarinet. This individual was holding it as if it were a weapon.”
I don't know if this communication officer realize the ridicule of her statement.
by GuestFAUniverse
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- Thank your MAGAs.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/31/1209683...
Insanity. That isn't "denial of a problem", or a tendency anymore.
_One order of magnitude_ worse than any western civilization.
Other countries have "wake up calls" and act accordingly.
Still, close to every US blockbuster movie "solves" problems with guns. That's cynical, considering the real world suffering.
- This software is expensive and incompetent. Such blunders are expensive, think of the dispatched officers, the highly disturbed school and so on. Such false positives should be heavily penalized such that the companies providing the service are incentivized to fix their systems. The officials claiming the software worked as needed are probably benefitting from these contracts.
by kylehotchkiss
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- We could metal detect and bag check at the doors, or we can pay a ton of money for a vision based system… what is with Americans fixations on cameras as the technical solution to every real world problem?
Gun detection is a solved problem. Even shopping malls and hotels in developing countries get this right.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_co...
Postwar kids, now in corporate and political leadership, were raised in a more militant, religious society.
Society is still shedding the paranoia and codependency they observed and have locked away in their neural networks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Wertham
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center
It's not the media itself causing mental health crisis but the militant policing and guilt trips at non-conformism
Financial engineering is being used the same way; keeping the next generation poor because they don't want to kowtow to a rich elder.
- I'm gonna give the AI a pass on this one.
Student was intentionally dressed in military camo as part of a dress up.
The camera is probably grainy garbage at poor angle.
It's a reasonable assessment, probably a human being would double take in the same situation.
The problem is not having a human check the AI alert before locking down the school.
The problem is having a society where people regularly take guns into schools and public places and commit mass murder.
- Apparently school didn't already suck enough, and needed to suck more. With each passing year it's more and more like prison.
- not hotdog
by ChrisArchitect
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- [dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311558
by techblueberry
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- “school resource officers, security directors and superintendents consistently ask us to be proactive and forward them an alert if there is any fraction of a doubt that the threat might be real.”
Jesus
- the experiential divide between home and and ,prison schooling , is well, just that
- This is absolutely ridiculous and insane. I feel deep sadness for what children these days are being put through, by scammy tech companies and the infamous NRA at the same time.
The cherry on top is that they refuse to provide statistics on their technology - something I assumed would’ve been table stakes to propagate it nation wide. And yet, the USA still has deadly school shootings on a weekly basis…
- are humans adopting AI on their daily basis, hallucinating? stories at 11
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