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[–] towerful@programming.dev 68 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Writing reports is hard? Fuck paper work? Policing used to be easier?
Great, the reports are written for you and the paper work is done for you.
You are still fucking liable for their contents, as you are (or should be) for your actions.

Recorded and written reports are the backbone of accountability.

Don't want to get fucked by the legal system because you have neglected your duties? Don't neglect your duties. Do the reporting, do the paper work.

Using LLM in such reports should be equivalent of perjury. Use LLMs to create bullet points, turn that into a draft (or just submit the bullet points, because someone is likely to feed the report back into an LLM to turn it into bullet points).
But know that you are (or should be) accountable for every last word on that report!

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 23 points 6 days ago

Or, you know... Read the generated report at minimum...

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"Should be" being the lynch-pin of that comment

[–] mracton@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

And the key to repeated disappointment.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 59 points 6 days ago (2 children)

surprised someone read the report

[–] ecvanalog@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Only because this was a simulated event to test the software. If they move forward with it, surely most of these will be filed and never scrutinized.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

AI read it and reported falsely

[–] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 41 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Tl;dr the body cam footage picked up on “the princess & the frog” in the background, which distorted the report.

I write this so you don’t have to click on the story. I agree with other posters; this is lazy police work from Utah.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What is this a reference to? 😅

I know it sounds familiar...

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?

(Didn't even need to click the link, lol)

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago
[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This should ABSOLUTELY scream plausible deniability, and invalidate any proceedings that follow (imho - ianal)

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago

And anything the officer has previously reported should be put under review

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Police reports that support criminal complaints are usually sworn under perjury, or otherwise the officer or complainant is coming into court and testifying directly to what happened.

Either way, the person who swears is responsible for the content of what they testify to.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Aww... that's cute that you think police are ever held accountable for their crimes

[–] Urga@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 5 days ago

You know, there are many police forces and some of them are in places where some of the time they are held accountable

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

AI article about police using AI to make garbage reports?

That tracks

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world -4 points 6 days ago

Lol... I found the jackboots who downvoted!

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

…And then promptly sued by Disney for copyright infringement.

[–] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

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