The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” “blah,” “leave me alone,” and button mashing in Flock’s ‘reason’ box.

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    20 days ago

    That’s not a solution. We’ve had measures like that implemented for decades. It approaches the problem from an individual and up perspective.

    The issue is not “bad apples”. All these measures do is force the obscurity of the issue. Right now we see an obvious abuse of power because of these obviously unserious reasons.

    It’s a symptom not the problem. Would the police oppression change if the prompt got filled with an AI generated string of that sounded professional? No.

    Individualized solutions that treat the problem as individual are treating symptoms; not the problem.

    It’s the same reason ICE and the police aren’t going to be any better with body cameras. The problem was never the witnessing of the crimes. The problem has always been the protection of the institutions by those with economic and political power.