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How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me
(www.thedrive.com)
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There are so many timelines where this guy ends up dead or in jail. This timeline depended on his ability to get a rep from Jaguar on the phone on a weekend. I can kind of understand the four car response; the system kept dropping him and they finally had positive confirmation this was the car and where it was. I wonder how often clerical/technical errors happen and how early in the process they normally get caught. This could've ended as badly as some of the swatting cases have and started out much the same way: an input into a system drives a forceful output. It doesn't matter to the recipient of the force if it was a prank, a malicious act by someone, or a glitch in the matrix. If someone dies because a bad actor swatted someone there are consequences. What are the consequences if the entire Flock system is pure happy path from lens to server?
While I agree that Flock sucks, using alternate timelines as arguments isn't working
Everyone is all ears for solutions: https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/we-follow-through/clevelands-flock-safety-cameras-set-to-go-dark
I don't think we're using alternate timelines enough. This is an example of a situation where nobody involved wanted to be in that situation, and it happened anyway. Who had something they could've done differently that wouldn't have brought that situation to a Kohl's parking lot? Maybe instead of reviewing a range rover he should've been reviewing a rental Nissan Versa?
Right now Flock can have as absolutely shit of an AI as they want and there's no incentive to improve it. False positives don't cost them anything. And P.S. the video data isn't ever going away.