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prepend ◴[] 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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closewith ◴[] No.41901375[source]
Reading this comment, it sounds to me that you live in a dystopian nightmare.
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immibis[dead post] ◴[] No.41901723[source]
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briandear ◴[] No.41901942[source]
“Regularly” is not a particularly accurate word.

50 million K12 students in the U.S. — how many mass murders are “regular?”

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sqeaky ◴[] No.41902085{4}[source]
More than once a week not quite once a day.

Rather than trying to diminish something that's completely preventable and abhorrent maybe we could discuss ways to actually prevent it. Because this isn't a problem anywhere else so clearly it's preventable.

If AI can be part of a solution here this is a reasonable place to discuss it.

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bigstrat2003 ◴[] No.41902129{5}[source]
Nobody said we shouldn't try to solve the problem. But the first step is accurately describing the problem to be solved. Something that occurs once a year across the entire country has very different solutions than something which occurs once a week in every county.
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1. hnlmorg ◴[] No.41903068{6}[source]
The problem is already well defined as regular school shootings. I don’t think redescribing the problem helps anyone apart from the NRA.