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[–] Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We should have learned from navigation systems that people rely too much on a computer without thinking for themselves.

Facial recognition and AI for behavior recognition are potentially good security tools. But only if a human controls the output. The US had people wrongfully imprisoned because some Flock camera made the wrong call. Cases in which a human would have noticed that the accused's car has an entirely different color.

It's a human problem that can't get solved. Not with new protocols, not with new software ideas. I have seen people clicking on buttons without reading what is there, only to get rid of any obstacle fast enough.

The only solution is banning this technology. Alternatively, make all false positives not caught by a human as expensive as possible.

[–] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Humans, in aggregate, behave consistently when presented with structured prompts. The trick with new technology is to figure out what presentation of the information results in the desired behavior of checking for AI blind spots. An example with Flock is that they don't present partial matches any differently than complete matches - in that case the improvement of describing partial matches as incomplete is obvious, but other triggers for human common reactions are more challenging to tease out. But it can be done!

I believe if regulators set up a system to encourage research and implementation of responsible data presentation - meaning outputs that make it easy for humans to have appropriate trust and add checking as needed - that would have more positive and lasting impacts than a ban.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago

How about don't present partial matches, demand more data first to raise certainty of the results. Especially partial matches against open ended data sets is wildly unsafe in almost every case (eg. not already having suspects).

Responsible presentation is sometimes not at all, if the user isn't an expert.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Snitches get glitches.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Not to worry. Give it two or three months of vapid idiots being told what to think by an LLM of their choice, and nobody will know what "Kafkaesque" even means.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

and nobody will know what “Kafkaesque” even means.

Most people already have no idea what it means.

How many people have actually read Kafka? How many of them have read more than one?

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

You don't need to have read Kafka to know about Kafka.

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[–] massacre@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yah! It's Kafkaesque... Bitch!

[–] Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip 5 points 2 days ago

Richard, Elliot's Assistant: This is pure Kafka...
Hospital Interrogator: Who's Kafka! Tell me!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112715/quotes/?item=qt0429507

[–] Klox@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

We've already seen these movies. And they weren't very good to begin with.

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