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> I realize I'm preaching to a very cynical crowd here but I just don't see EU countries locking up innocent people accused of being pedophiles en masse by some
by shakna 4y ago
> I realize I'm preaching to a very cynical crowd here but I just don't see EU countries locking up innocent people accused of being pedophiles en masse by some garbage AI
555 wrongful fraud convictions because of Second Sight, between 1996 and 2014, with a 2015 claim of no wrong doing and no system problems [0], in the UK.
Rubina Nami, jailed for a year. Seema Misra jailed for longer, whilst innocent and pregnant.
Noel Thomas jailed for twelve weeks at the age of 60 - the judge refusing to consider a flaw in the computer system to be possible, because of a report that concluded:
> If the Horizon system was flawed, I would expect to see issues raised by all 14,000 branches in the UK and not only a handful.
They locked up people over a garbage AI system over something much less sensitive than protecting children. Recently.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
- stef25 4y agoFair enough, thanks for pointing this out.