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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yay, concentration camps. My list of countries to live in is consistently getting smaller.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Is this turning into minority report in real life?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Welcome to our over-securitized late stage capitalist hellscape. All so companies can push out these bogus 'tools' and eat more of the state budget and profit like the crony capitalists they are. Not the first time. First as a tragedy, second as a farce.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Right? No way this could possibly backfire. Unless, of course, that's the intended outcome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's typical of the neolib Labour party.

They've recently reintroduced legislation for digital IDs, just as they did the previous time they were in govt (prior to 2010).

We also have police stepping up unregulated use of facial reignition camera on the streets

They are obsessed with authoritarianism.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Major black mirror vibes

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I shit you not, my mom literally just was talking about that anime and joking about it with me last night. I think it's because we were talking about police anime.

Like if I knew Lemmy didn't have an algorithm, I'd think this shit was targeted.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I give it two seconds to turn into racism machine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

And those two seconds are just the boot sequence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I watch enough true crime to know that anyone is capable of murder

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago

Data scientist here; there simply are not enough murders to model this, so they will need to use proxies for “likely” murderers (like any sort of violent crime). That means the model will very strongly target people who are over-policed (minorities) and those more likely to actually get caught and charged for things, and thus be in the training data set (poor people). It will also fail spectacularly for this purpose because even a highly accurate model will produce almost 100% false positives -again, because actual murders are so vanishingly rare. The math just doesn’t work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

NBA Youngboy fans 😯

😂

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Healthcare CEOs at the top of the list.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

if the model is working correctly it indeed must point us towards billionaires

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

We are begging CEOs to please read the rest of the novel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I hope many of their politicians get placed high on the list.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They should make three, and they all have to agree, but if only one disagrees then maybe they can ignore it, call it the "minority account" or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sounds like a great idea for a movie. I have the feeling it would become an instant cult classic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The "less report". Blamo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

You're not going to believe this, but Tom Cruise... has identified you as an agent of Xenu.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

So are they going to enforce ICC warrants?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Does it identify people like Kid Starver who are murdering the disabled on an industrial scale?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Psycho Pass called, you missed its point

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

"UK developing new hybrid non lethal/lethal weapon that will use murder risk prediction score to select operating mode. This amazing invention will cut down on police related deaths, learn more tonight on BBC."

I swear the UK is as dystopian as the US and even worse in a lot of ways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ah yes, the good old way of throwing electromagnetic waves at people after putting their cymatic scans inside a shared pool of neutrally and selected shared consciousness of dissected sociopaths brains.

I didn't have it on my Bingo card.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I swear the UK is as dystopian as the US and even worse in a lot of ways.

Why do you think they wanted Brexit? Now they can apply all their demented ideas to their country freely.

I, for one, haven't set foot there since Brexit officially concluded. Shame that I have friends there but, I hear it's becoming worse by the day anyways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I swear the UK is as dystopian as the US and even worse in a lot of ways.

It literally always has been and that fact is why the US even exists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Good point, didn't think about it like that haha

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

Prediction: this gets used to surveil dissidents and minorities disproportionately.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't this the TV show Person of Interest?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

You are being watched...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Is it April fools? please still be April's fools, checks calendar, dammit, not April's fools still. It's actually news.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

apparently Uk govt has never played watch dogs legion, nor seen Equilibrium (C Bale movie), nor Minority Report, nor Richard III, nor read Brave New World, nor the billion other movies, novels, games, poems, songs, Banksy art, social videos, cave paintings, etc that specifically warned UK not to (re)become the villain (over and over again)

it's like the 2nd most popular culture topic.... after "love" or something

but noooo, just had to be edgelordsandladies.gov.uk

.........

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Psycho Pass.

Another one to the list. Great anime. It's like if Blade Runner and Minority Report had a loving relationship and a beautiful child was the byproduct of this union.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck around, find out, double down

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

"What can we do to improve society, I know I'll watch some dystopian SciFi for ideas" - the UK government probably

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

Let me guess: Palantir

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