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AI Police Reports: Year in Review

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Re: AI Police Reports: Year in Review

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What worries me is that _a lot of people seem to see LLMs as smarter than themselves_ and anthropmorphize them into a sort of human-exact intelligence. The worst-case scenario of Utah's law is that when the disclaimer is added that the report is generated by AI, enough jurists begin to associate that with "likely more correct than not".

Reading how AI is being approached in China, the focus is more on achieving day to day utilty, without eviscerating youth employment.

In contrast, the SV focus of AI has been about skynet / singularity, with a hype cycle to match.

This is supported by the lack of clarity on actual benefits, or clear data on GenAI use. Mostly I see it as great for prototyping - going from 0 to 1, and for use cases where the operator is highly trained and capable of verifying output.

Outside of that, you seem to be in the land of voodoo, where you are dealing with something that eerily mimics human speech, but you don't have any reliable way of finding out its just BS-ing you.

Re: AI Police Reports: Year in Review

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Don't worry sufficiently advanced LLMs will learn how to put in the right amount of typoes to be convincing.

It's not certain that LLMs don't do this already—it's likely their doing this even now.

That’s —— not just —— possible— it’s —— ——— probable!!!

Re: AI Police Reports: Year in Review

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You either don't have police reports or some amount of your country's police reports aee written by AI. I'd be more worried that you aren't reading articles about it than if you were.

Considering that AI can barely write in my native language I am not worried. There are countries on this planet that are not actively digging their own graves.

Cmon tell us, Mr. Rammstein’s throwaway, which much-superior country is it?!

Re: AI Police Reports: Year in Review

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This does sound problematic, but if a police officer's report contradicts the body-worn camera or other evidence, it already undermines their credibility, whether they blame AI or not. My impression is that police don't usually face repercussions for inaccuracies or outright lying in court. > That means that if an officer is caught lying on the stand – as shown by a contradiction between their courtroom testimony and…

> My impression is that police don't usually face repercussions for inaccuracies or outright lying in court. That's because it's a very difficult thing to prove. Bad memories and even completely false memories are real things.

Sure, but other court participants are given somewhat less grace for lying under oath.

Re: AI Police Reports: Year in Review

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Considering that AI can barely write in my native language I am not worried. There are countries on this planet that are not actively digging their own graves.

Cmon tell us, Mr. Rammstein’s throwaway, which much-superior country is it?!

a/s/l?

Re: AI Police Reports: Year in Review

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> My impression is that police don't usually face repercussions for inaccuracies or outright lying in court. That's because it's a very difficult thing to prove. Bad memories and even completely false memories are real things.

Sure, but other court participants are given somewhat less grace for lying under oath.

Are they?

Perjury isn't a commonly prosecuted crime.

Re: AI Police Reports: Year in Review

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> My impression is that police don't usually face repercussions for inaccuracies or outright lying in court. That's because it's a very difficult thing to prove. Bad memories and even completely false memories are real things.

That's why we need a greatly reduced standard of proof for officer misconduct, especially when it comes to consequences like just losing your job (as opposed to, e.g., jail time).

While I agree that officers should be accountable. More enforcement of them will not suddenly make them good officers. Other nations train their police for years prior to putting them into the thick of it. US police spend far less time studying, and it shows, in everything from de-escalation tactics to general legal understanding. If you create a pipeline to weed out bad officers, then there needs to be a pipeline producing better officers

Re: AI Police Reports: Year in Review

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Don't worry sufficiently advanced LLMs will learn how to put in the right amount of typoes to be convincing.

It's not certain that LLMs don't do this already—it's likely their doing this even now.

Are you an LLM that misspelled “they’re” intentionally?

Re: AI Police Reports: Year in Review

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Sure, but other court participants are given somewhat less grace for lying under oath.

Are they? Perjury isn't a commonly prosecuted crime.

If an officer misremembers something about you, you go to jail . If you misremember something about the event, you also go to jail. Yeah, I guess it tracks

Re: AI Police Reports: Year in Review

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not certain that LLMs don't do this already—it's likely their doing this even now.

Are you an LLM that misspelled “they’re” intentionally?

That was the joke. Also the use of the "It's not; it's" structure and the em-dash.
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