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Multiple readings Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Texas police AI-written abortion report

Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · 404 Media
“The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases” evidence ↗
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404 Media Joseph Cox Sarah T Roberts, PhD Jason Koebler Amanda Tepski
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“The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases”

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“New from 404 Media: the Texas police who used Flock to track a woman who self-administered abortion also used AI to write their report about the whole situation. They used AI to summarize a discussion of “the legal implications of the situation.” www.404med…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
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The revolt against metas pervert

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Brian Merchant
“It was a pleasure to chat with the great @hypervisible.blacksky.app about the backlash to Meta's AI glasses, and to luxury surveillance in general. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-revolt...” evidence ↗
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Brian Merchant Hypervisible Sarah T Roberts, PhD evacide

“It was a pleasure to chat with the great @hypervisible.blacksky.app about the backlash to Meta's AI glasses, and to luxury surveillance in general. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-revolt...”

“Please enjoy this interview with @hypervisible.blacksky.app about Meta's pervert glasses. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-revolt...”

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Brian Merchant: It was a pleasure to chat with the great @hypervisible.blacksky.app about the backlash to Meta's AI glasses, and to luxury surveillance in general. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-revolt...
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: It was a pleasure to chat with the great @hypervisible.blacksky.app about the backlash to Meta's AI glasses, and to luxury surveillance in general. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-revolt...
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: Thanks for the shout-out, @hypervisible.blacksky.app ! It sounds so crazy when you say it out loud...
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Primary source bloodinthemachine.com ↗
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11 experts · 103 posts · 2h ago
Marc Lanctot Olivia Guest Sarah T Roberts, PhD Pwnallthethings Mike Caulfield Colin Adam Wiemerslage rev. howard arson
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“there are a lot of very serious concerns about LLMs, but "they might not be reliable at math" is one folks should bury and move on from quickly” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 3 Opportunity & adoption · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: Try teaching college students. You won’t be quite so dismissive then.
Pwnallthethings: I think the "LLMs can't reason" stuff is mostly sophism these days. They plainly do not "reason" in the way humans do, and are certainly not always correct or good at it, but they are also doing th…
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