Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers breaking the law in its first 3 days.
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The AI system, designed by tech company Acusensus, takes photos of passing vehicles and flags those with potential offenses.

Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.::An AI camera system installed along a major road in England caught 300 offenses in its first 3 days.There were 180 seat belt offenses and 117 mobile phone

  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    267·
    10 months ago

    Calling an image recognition system a robot enforcing the law is such a stretch you’re going to pull a muscle.

    • EndlessApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      10 months ago

      It’s going to disproportionately target minorities. ML* isn’t some wonderful impartial observer, it’s subject to all the same biases as the people who made it. Whether the people at the end of the process are impartial or not barely matters either imo, they’re going to get the biased results of the ML looking for criminals so it’s still going to be a flawed system even if the human element is OK. Ffs please don’t support this kind of dystopian shit, Idk how it’s not completely obvious how horrifying this stuff is

      *what people call AI is not intelligent at all. It uses machine learning, the same process as chatbots and autocorrect. AI is a buzzword used by tech bros who are desperate to “invest in the future”

        • EndlessApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          10 months ago

          Face recognition data sets and the like tend to be pretty heavily skewed, they usually have a lot more white people than poc. You can see this when ML image filters turn black people into white people or literal gorillas. Unless the data set properly represents a super diverse set of people (and tbh probably even if it does), there’s going to be a lot of race based false positives/negatives

            • EndlessApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              That might be the case tbh, but either way that would be bad and discriminatory. I might just be overthinking it, it might not actually be that bad, but I know discrimination like that is super common when it comes to how recognition-based ML is trained

              • ParsnipWitch@feddit.deEnglish
                2·
                10 months ago

                But how is that different or worse from a human sitting at the side of the road and writing down number plates for example?

                • EndlessApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  Tbh part of my response to this is just knee-jerk reaction, this specific application might not be a bad idea, but I’m terrified of the surveillance state this type of stuff is warming us up for. There’s already talk of cops in US and China and probably other places planning to use ML like this to pore over security footage and find criminals/track people in general. To me this sounds like England’s first dip into that authoritarian pool, a proof of concept to see how viable it is keeping the entire country under 24/7 surveillance

      • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        The image recognition system detects a cell phone being used and snaps a photo, records the plate number, etc. How exactly does that lead to racism?