Los Angeles is using AI to predict who might become homeless and help before they do::undefined

  • qooqie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is what state run AI models should be doing, not any of that other wack ass shit

    • Piecemakers@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Color me skeptical, considering this city specifically has the single most notoriously corrupt and violent police force in the history of the nation. Yeah, that model is being trained to “help”.

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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        1 year ago

        If you’ve never worked with local governments, you may not realize how independent these departments can be. And also that the people who go into this line of work usually really want to help people. I can’t speak to the situation in LA directly but I seriously doubt they would be sharing their tools with the police unless there was political pressure to do so. Which I think is unlikely in LA.

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          1 year ago

          That’s a non-zero chance that LLM is safely secured and incapable of being used for unethical reasons, no matter how “independent” the political groups are.

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            1 year ago

            They can just build their own model if they want to. It’s not that hard, especially since the police have a lot of money. So the question is more do we allow this than will they somehow steal it from another unrelated program.

    • Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Definitely. Policy should be made on the basis of what’s proven to be effective, not ideology.

      AI could be more effective, provided that what’s been fed into it is not garbage