“Is this the America we live in?” said one parent. “And it was this stupid, stupid technology that is just going through picking up random words and not looking at context.”
  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    11 days ago

    With the help of artificial intelligence, technology can dip into online conversations and immediately notify both school officials and law enforcement.

    Not sure what’s worse here: how the police overreacted or that the software immediately contacts law enforcement, without letting teachers (n.b.: they are the experts here, not the police) go through the positives first.

    But oh, that would mean having to pay somebody, at least some extra hours, in addition to the no doubt expensive software. JFC.

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Not sure what’s worse here: how the police overreacted or that the software immediately contacts law enforcement, without letting teachers (n.b.: they are the professionals here, not the police) go through the positives first.

      The idea behind the policy is to stop school shootings. If there were a legitimate threat of violence, you would likely want the police to be notified as soon as possible. The issue here is that the authorities are letting a piece of half-ass code (Read: AI) decide what is a legitimate threat and, worse still, acting on that determination without question.

      They have literally sacrificed an essential freedom for some temporary, and probably illusory, security.

      • 6nk06@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        11 days ago

        the policy is to stop school shootings

        You should try Europe once. It’s more fun than your 3rd world country.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Arrested and strip-searched for a first offense? That’s fucking ridiculous. I hope the lawsuit succeeds. It’s the only peaceful tool we have to curb over-zealous law enforcement.

    Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, strip-searched and spent the night in a jail cell, her mother says.

    Earlier in the day, her friends had teased the teen about her tanned complexion and called her “Mexican,” even though she’s not. When a friend asked what she was planning for Thursday, she wrote: “on Thursday we kill all the Mexico’s.”

  • kalkulat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Lots of wannabe authoritarians out there in educationland.

    All those decades that the schools just -couldn’t afford- more (well-educated) teachers and smaller class sizes. Lots of low-end look-good.

    And then along came tech, and lo-and-behold, IT was going to be the savior. Let’s buy into that! We may not be able to teach them to read, write or think, but they can learn to kneel!

      • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
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        10 days ago

        Citizen! Good news! Your writings have been randomly selected by Friend Computer for review!

        A select team of Troubleshooters has been dispatched to bathe your general area in soothing Raytheon ™ Brain Beams until your attitude improves.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 days ago

    What is sad is that an environment like this ruins someone’s mental health and ironically increasing the overall risk of violence.

  • Ontimp@feddit.orgEnglish
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    11 days ago

    This is exactly what is going to happen with the fucking chat control of the EU actually enforces it, but for an entire continent. Fuck this shit. Privacy is a human right.

  • Aggravationstation@feddit.ukEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I can’t say for certain because I wasn’t given one but I can’t imagine me and my friends would have been willing to communicate with each other on devices provided by our school. Even in the early 00s it would have been filled with spyware.