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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: 0.215s | 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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ClassyJacket ◴[21 Oct 24 07:03 UTC] No.41901445[source]▶
I think it's stupid to have a country where guns are legal.
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1. umanwizard ◴[21 Oct 24 12:38 UTC] No.41903519[source]▶
If the US were a functional democracy, and continued letting unrestricted gun ownership be legal, you could argue that the US citizenry is being stupid. But the US is not a functional democracy, and meaningfully reforming anything is impossible, regardless of whether most people want it or whether it’s a good idea.