“It was like eight cop cars that came pulling up for us,” Allen told WBAL-TV 11 News. “They started walking toward me with guns, talking about ‘Get on the ground,’ and I was like, ‘What?’”
“They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my back, and cuff me. Then they searched me and found nothing,” he said.
Allen was handcuffed at gunpoint. Police later showed him the AI-captured image that triggered the alert. The crumpled Doritos bag in his pocket had been mistaken for a gun.
“It was mainly like, am I gonna die? Are they going to kill me? “They showed me the picture, said that looks like a gun, I said, ‘no, it’s chips.’”
The AI system behind the incident is part of Omnilert’s gun detection technology, introduced in Baltimore County Public Schools last year. It scans existing surveillance footage and alerts police in real time when it detects what it believes to be a weapon.
Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,” saying its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.”
functioned as intended
How can a journalist just write that without pushing back at all?
Because in that field, doing that is pretty much committing career suicide, especially if you do it too early in your career.
Which considering it was one of the local news stations that covered it, I’d bet you the journalist was either thinking nothing at all, or was telling themselves to not pushback on it because they don’t have enough connections to eat the shit that’ll get served to them if they do.
We will end crime in the next 6 months using this technology btw
can’t have crime if you jail everyone and jail crimes get only internal hearings
Can’t be any criminals on the streets if everyone is in prison
or shot to death
Systems like this have been killing people overseas for years. Now shit is coming home to the imperial core.
IF melaninIdentifier >= 0.5 AND itemInPocket == True: notifyAuthorities()Where’s my billions?
Suck up to some small town sheriffs and you have a deal.
bad country (china, nk, cuba, etc. take your pick) is a surveillance state, unlike the land of the free where AI cameras will sick armed maniacs on you for eating a bag of chips
We have officially entered the Cool Ranch Zone
God dammit that’s a good one
claimed the system “functioned as intended,” saying its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.”
Prioritizing public safety by sending a swarm of trigger happy hogs with guns drawn at a random kid. Very cool future we’ve found ourselves in!
Minority Report but literal.
If this is the intended function, they should not be using it
You’ll never guess what the student looked like. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
“Functioned as intended.”
So the purpose if the system is to terrorize children, with the not so small chance that the pigs will shoot the kids, all based on hallucinations from an inscrutable program.
but claimed the system “functioned as intended,”
It just works!
Me who just stored 12 bags of doritoes in the kitchen…
This is a stick up I’ve got a bag of dotitos give me all your guns
I guess there’s not enough school shootings from organic murderers so they’re industrializing it with cops going on murder sprees because their tickle-me-elmo-bot chip implant mistake school text books as IEDs
AI version of George Zimmerman. This was almost a Trayvon Martin incident with the bag of skittles and can of Arizona Tea. Crazy. Absolutely fucked up. I hate AI.
prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification
The “rapid human verification”:
I thought this had to be a bit but clicked through the sources and it seems it’s actually real? Can’t believe the world has already gotten to the point where people get swatted by hallucinating AI. The oppressive cyberpunk surveillance state is here and boy is it dogshit
Doritos will use this in an ad.
Unfortunately, “dangerously cheesy” is already trademarked by Cheetos
Doritos: They bring the heat!
holy fuck lmaooooooooooooooooooooo
