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Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations

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427 points JumpCrisscross | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 17:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | source
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prepend ◴[20 Oct 24 18:50 UTC] No.41897599[source]▶
My kids’ school added a new weapons scanner as kids walk in the door. It’s powered by “AI.” They trust the AI quite a bit.

However, the AI identifies the school issued Lenovo laptops as weapons. So every kid was flagged. Rather than stopping using such a stupid tool, they just have the kids remove their laptops before going through the scanner.

I expect not smart enough people are buying “AI” products and trusting them to do the things they want them to do, but don’t work.

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willvarfar ◴[21 Oct 24 06:11 UTC] No.41901135[source]▶
Do you think it stupid to scan kids for weapons, or stupid to think that a metal detector will find weapons?
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1. windows_hater_7 ◴[21 Oct 24 08:06 UTC] No.41901784[source]▶
A high school I worked at had a similar system in place called Evolv. It’s not a metal detector, but it did successfully catch a student with a loaded gun in his backpack. Granted, he didn’t mean to bring the gun to school. I think it’s stupid to believe that kids who want to bring a gun to school will arrive on time to school. They often arrive late when security procedures like bag scanning are not in place.