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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

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  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    Prediction: this gets used to surveil dissidents and minorities disproportionately.

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    Oh, I’ve seen this one. where’s scientology Tom in this episode?

    • єχтяανɒgαηт єηzумэ@lemm.ee
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      Or the bald predictor gals laying in water?

      • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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        The precogs were FMM. They were named after famous crime fiction authors, Agatha (Christie), Dash (Dashiell Hammett), and Arthur (Conan Doyle).

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          Didn’t know that, that’s cool!

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    Guilty until proven innocent.

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      It’s how the police view you anyway.

    • SoulWager@lemmy.ml
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      Pretty easy to prove you didn’t commit a crime that hasn’t happened, no?

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        No

        https://youtu.be/3Zfz5rjjifM

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        Yes just tell the pig that you did not do it and he will release you

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

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    Psycho Pass called, you missed its point

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      “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.

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        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.

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        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.

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

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    Isn’t this the TV show Person of Interest?

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      You are being watched…

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    Does it identify people like Kid Starver who are murdering the disabled on an industrial scale?

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    So are they going to enforce ICC warrants?

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    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.

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

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

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      The “less report”. Blamo.

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

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

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    Healthcare CEOs at the top of the list.

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

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    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.

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    I give it two seconds to turn into racism machine

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      And those two seconds are just the boot sequence.

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