One in Three Alerts Wrong: High Error Rates and Data Concerns Force Cities to Drop Flock (gadgetreview.com)

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The Flock Cameras may or may not be defective. But the Palantir brain behind the cameras often makes false accusations and endangers innocent members of the Public. So the Palantir brain is dangerously defective and should be shut down.

But did they remove them? If they are still in place, they are still functioning

Those cameras are still up filming Angelenos though... They need to be taken down!

Is there a person behind all of these calls for stolen vehicles.

Another step towards the inevitable AI crash.

But have these cameras been taken down?

Seems all of it was just a test our tolerances anyway. Nex Gen of these devices won’t be so obvious

Remember, flock is only one company. A lot of cities dropping flock will pick up another company to do the same thing, like Axon. Don't let them win the PR battle if they just switch to a different company providing this terrible technology.

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And the adolescent behavior of officers using it to track women.

Sweet! Please spread this awesome info far & wide, & flush the Flocking asswipes down the nearest sewer. (As if we don't have enough to worry about with climate change, arrogant & dangerous "Ice Agents" killing innocent citizens & who knows what else...

So, 100 cars drive by a Flock device. Over 32 falsely are flagged as stolen.

Flock off, Flock.

This data accrues increasing liability for Flock. Should a false stolen vehicle report turn into a deadly use of force by police, Flock is going to need great lawyers.

Yep Which is great fodder for a defense attorney. Flock cameras are NOT reliable enough for police work. So what are they good for?

American justice system is so corrupt and inept

Flock cameras are imploding. Good.

Fuck Flock.

So AI is sometimes wrong? Who knew?

Good. LA been using these cameras also to enforce street sweeping/parking laws, and keep pinging my Jeep as a Honda, 75mi away. So not only can these things be hacked, they can't even ID vehicles correctly.

32%, still way more reliable than "lie detector" testing. Never trust anything they say.

Excellent news…these to go, now!

. Jeesh! Flock should take a photo of the plate and flag it, THEN someone can review the plate and see if the number is the same one reported, or if it's a misread. That will CUT THE false STOLEN vehicle alerts 100%! Gawd, how easy to figure this problem out. 161 in two months, that can be done.

"Declined to renew" is not the same as taking the cameras down. They are still operational and still watching you.

The only useful place for Flock cameras is in the Halls of Congress, so everyone can see "how the sausage is made"!

Flock is fucked

youtu.be/lnBPhelCdWE?...

So they're just going to go with a different surveillance company instead of abandoning these dystopian ambitions.

DESTROY ALL FLOCK CAMERAS

Don't get too excited. There's like 14 other companies

Not to mention cops abusing the tech for personal reasons. bsky.app/profile/eddi...

Flock suddenly gets concerned about getting sued. When all else fails, do the right thing. 🙄

GET RID OF THESE SURVEILLANCE DEVICES. The only people using them are ICE and other evil entities.

Doesn’t matter if 100% positives it’s still wrong and dystopian

That seems like a lot... 🤔

I appreciate the American root of a ’more perfect union’ but Id like to see a twin org in the uk.

The LAPD is still using drones to spy on their residents though! Taxpayers forced to pay for their own fascist surveillance state. Absolutely sickening.

Sadly doesn’t matter much . All they want is the cameras installed. Once installed it’s a node on their private network. And they have backdoor access.

Love the "Flock Block" bsky.app/profile/luca...

🤔 And it only took the LAPD the violation of hundreds of their residents rights to realize that this was a systemic that was super anti-Democratic = Why I Don’t Support The Current Leaders In California

TEAR THEM DOWN.

what the FLOCK????

The consequences of misidentification can be severe or even fatal.

Yeah, those things should not exist

Technology might lead to a lot of extra, useless work. A lesson that can be applied before you invest in the technology.

They’ll move on to axon, don’t let them

It's great we are seeing the data. The privacy and surveillance state argument against them obviously has not swayed their adoption. The "they make your department waste resources" messaging may be more effective.

Police used to watch over the people, now they're watching the people. Not sure where that came from, but holds true.

Did this cause any deaths or injuries…

They probably should have asked the public before they installed them.

Fuck Flock cameras

The CEO is a huge fucking freak Maybe worst than Thiel

A Flock VP used it to spy on teens, or younger, at the gym, for an hour Why do they need a camera there? It's insane They're basically creating an Epstein camera network, and everybody is paying for this

while PD's or cities are not renewing contracts to USE the flock cameras In many cities the cameras are still in place, on city owned poles or mounts ( or Flock mounts on city property, which many not meet codes for typical poles, for hazard) and still operational recording data and sending it

I'm done with id. If somebody wants to know who I am they can take a look at my fucking asshole.

The real question is, why are police buyers so f****** stupid.

Generative AI has an approximately 30% hallucination rate.

How many “false positives” led to police drawing their guns on a traffic stop?

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Not only bad tech, really bad tech.

you people hate the cameras..tell that to the Mother of the little girl that almost got HIT by a car going around a stopped school bus with its lights on. The police ID'd the car from the camera and found the DRUNK who almost hit the child. OR the police who caught a man PURPOSELY running down a dog

a police agency does not do anything with a stolen vehicle alert UNLESS they are given the info...and I would not doubt if the police were not given bad info to have them run in circles. SOMEONE had to initiate the Stolen Vehicle alert before FLOCK or anyone else can do anything about it.

But not because of ethical concerns about mass-surveillance. Got it.

Not because it was a police state violation of your civil rights, just because it was costing too much in lawsuits. The government despises your civil rights. PS, we live in a police state.

yeah the lapd is already proficient at falsely accusing innocent people. they don't need flock for that

Who gives a flock. Flocking cameras. It took a picture of me mooning a nun while she was smoking a joint.

The saving grace in opposing the surveillance state lies in the same thing afflicting all AI - it really doesn't work well at all. Waste of money. Losing LAPD as a contract? Beautiful!

Private companies being paid to spy on Americans? Hmmmm. And we’re okay with that?

this is the 'ai enhanced' future we are being sold. Everything enhanced by software nobody understands that does stupid shit that nobody knows how to fix, other than to deploy another release that nobody understands.

#FuckFlock

So what company is replacing? Axon?

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