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Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes – The Markup (themarkup.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What do you know, every sci-fi movie ever on the topic was right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I'm so grateful for living in a society that lacks this technology. Imagine being arrested out of nowhere because a machine said you were going to do something bad in a year from now.

Hell, imagine not even knowing what you were going to do, but the algorithm said so.