• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Here’s the algorithm:

    White male? Low risk to reoffend!

    Everyone else? Maximum risk of repeat violent crimes!

  • LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
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    It’s always the question what is optimized for. We had the public discourse in the west destroyed by so called algorithms (it was billionaires hiding behind algorithms). They just did not have the same incentives as the rest of humanity.

    Same here, high recidivicism could be optimal for shareholder value and such.

  • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    They will commit future crimes when an opportunity presents itself.

    Done and done, no AI tokens needed. Thank you

    ETA from article

    In one case reported by ProPublica, a blind and wheelchair bound 70-year-old was determined to be a “moderate risk” of reoffending despite having a clean disciplinary record

    That will be one million dollars, please beep boop

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    They’ve managed to turn »we think you might be dangerous« into a number on a screen, which apparently makes it science. And when that number ruins someone’s chances of rehabilitation, everyone gets to shrug and blame the software. What a convenient little invention.

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    3 days ago

    “We put this into the magic computer box so that we can optimize racism placement of incarcerated individuals.”

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      If there was a way to change some parameters so the AI does not reinforce racist biases in society.

      We tried nothing and all out of options. “The AI said so”

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    3 days ago

    That’s it! I’m gonna buy some of that american prison stock on questrade and start ratting out my neighbours for fun and profit! /s

  • mefisdo_dot_info@lemmy.ca
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    At this point, why do they care about predicting crime? Can’t they just say “everyone is guilty, unless they are friends in business relationship with us.”

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    4 days ago

    Phillip K. Dick was so prophetic that he had to drowned himself in drugs to keep from seeing more horrors.

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    It “proves” itself too. Your algo puts them in solitary, and they don’t commit any crimes. Proof it works! /s

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    These tech bros , corrupt politicians, CEOs and shareholders need to be rounded up and thrown in these prisons because they never stop committing crimes