from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2026 23:12
https://sh.itjust.works/post/55916391
Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.
Alvi Choudhury, 26, a software engineer, was working at the home he shares with his parents in Southampton in January when police knocked on his door, handcuffed him and held him in custody for nearly 10 hours before releasing him at 2am.
Thames Valley police had used automated facial recognition software which matched him with footage of a suspect of a £3,000 burglary 100 miles away in Milton Keynes, according to documents shared with the Guardian by Liberty Investigates.
But the CCTV footage showed a noticeably younger man with different features apart from similar curly hair, said Choudhury, who was left confused about why he had been arrested.
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RIP actual police work - hello khakis dashboard for just-us
Palantir is wonderful software.
So police did not have to flag the file as AI generated, and don’t prioritize the review of these allegations by an actual human?
Did anyone tell that man he was unlawfully detained and has a civil claim against the government who knowingly and recklessly detained an innocent person?
But the police would have just arrested the nearest ethnic otherwise so it is totally the AI’s fault and the manufacturer should compensate travel expenses. /s
Sue the facial recognition company under product liability
It’s established fact that these racial recognition systems do poorly with virtually any confounding factors, particularly darker skin colour.
10 hours. What the fuck.
Dope typo.
The danger of using a product/system for a purpose it wasn’t designed for or that didn’t pass rigorous testing: poor reliability and serious errors.
“Age verification”
Here’s what I think the world needs.
Every citizen in every country gets 10 atomic bombs.
Ok so you falsely arrest this man. You don’t release him now, because he’ll just go get his atomic bombs.
But now his brother or his wife, or whomever, ALSO has atomic bombs. And they demand his release or else.
So NOW whenever anyone tries to do anything, they have to think. Will this make them use an atomic bomb?
And suddenly, police are a lot more careful. Corporations switch their gosls from profit, to citizen utopia. Can’t make anyone mad ever.
And in a strange way, I find that to be far more peaceful. Nobody is an asshole or a bully anymore, because we’ll ALL be blown up if one person snaps.
Maybe others are afraid of MAD. I was born into it. Raised in an environment where they say the russians could bomb us at anytime, and almost did multiple times.
I was raised to have nuclear bomb drills where they sound a siren, and thousznds of kids rushed into underground bunkers. We had fire drills, and tornado drills, and atomic bomb drills.
I imagine the kids who are like 20 today, are almost immune to fear of public shootings, because they grew up in the school shooting drill days. These kids could walk into a warzone, and dodge bullets like NEO. But nobody would even shoot a gun if anyone anywhere could nuke you.
What would you do about those with mental illness, Intellectual Disabilities, zealots, and children? In other words, people who may not have the capacity, or in the case of zealots, to make rational decisions.
They all get nukes.
My children are fairly well behaved, and I would be nuked on day 1.
I bet mental health services will be well-funded.
Certainly, and I’m in support of all the things that would need to happen to prevent the world from exploding. I just wish it happened without the stress and threat of bombs.
It’s very sad that some people need the threat of immediate personal physical violence to keep them from being controlling Nazi shitheads.
I’ll second that.
You know there’s literally death cultists out there trying to bring on the end of the world, right? We’d probably make it 6 hours
looks around at a world run by pedophiles, fascists, and abusers
…yeah, but is that really the worst idea?
It might be a terrible world, but it’s the only one we have
If you want to leave, don’t take out other people with you. I don’t think you properly thought out the implications of your words, so I’ll leave it at that
You’re optimistic.
This is fucking insane and a terrible idea.
nukes EtnaAtsume
Can I make one of mine a sidecar for a motorcycle? Even if I have Poor Impulse Control?
This idea is either the best ever or the worst ever… Either humanity is saved or we are annihilated 2 seconds after giving every individual nukes.
Honestly, it’s a coin toss.
There was a short story where everyone got one legal murder
Not too far away now
Please Hold
Vibepolicing
Sounds like the police in Britain has automated arresting people for the “crime” of walking on the street whilst not looking white enough.
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