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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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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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“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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Ai dictation app wispr

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD Anna Mills Neil Turkewitz

““Because writing, when it comes down to it, is a higher form of thinking. Writing takes time and editing and a deep level of commitment. Writing is a rigorous process to understand your own thoughts and then lay those thoughts out in a way that convinces or…”

“Using a dictation app doesn't have to mean we consider that to be the end of the writing process. Not understanding why Amy Wang is so negative here. Why not dictate and then edit and revise? https://t.co/gxvSVnUQeS”

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Anna Mills: Using a dictation app doesn't have to mean we consider that to be the end of the writing process. Not sure why Amy Wang is so negative here. Why not dictate and then edit and revise? www.nytimes.co…
John Warner: Dictation as a method for "writing" is, in and of itself, a skill that most of us don't have because we don't practice it. Instead, our speech to text sounds like...speech, which is not good fodder…
John Warner: Richard Powers at least for a time used voice to text to dictate his novels, but this took practice and a very specific kind of mind/talent to do. People could get good at dictating text for the pu…
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2 experts · 12 posts · 5d ago
Sarah T Roberts, PhD Amy Hoy
Amy Hoy: "if the youths hate ai so much, why do half of them use it at least weekly?" "if people hate their jobs so much, why do they go there every day?" gee, i don't know, must be some kind of special rea…
Amy Hoy: people who hate climate change nevertheless fly sometimes and also drive an old, cheap car that burns gas? confusing. obviously nobody'd ever use a thing that has systemic effects they hate. not to…
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