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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.
Neither is grace a common defense.
AI Police Reports: Year in Review
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#42What 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".
AI is smarter than everyone already. Seriously, the breadth of knowledge the AI possesses has no human counterpart.
It's pretty similar to looking something up with a search engine, mashing together some top results + hallucinating a bit, isn't it? The psychological effects of the chat-like interface + the lower friction of posting in said chat again vs reading 6 tabs and redoing your search, seems to be the big killer feature. The main "new" info is often incorrect info.
If you could get the full page text of every url on the first page of ddg results and dump it into vim/emacs where you can move/search around quickly, that would probably be similarly as good, and without the hallucinations. (I'm guessing someone is gonna compare this to the old Dropbox post, but whatever.)
It has no human counterpart in the same sense that humans still go to the library (or a search engine) when they don't know something, and we don't have the contents of all the books (or articles/websites) stored in our head.
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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 pr…
This is an outrageous lie, there were SEVEN Police Academy movies!!!
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI is smarter than everyone already. Seriously, the breadth of knowledge the AI possesses has no human counterpart.
Man, what are we supposed to do with people who think the above?
I don't know, it's kinda terrifying how this line of thinking is spreading even on HN. AI as we have it now is just a turbocharged autocomplete, with a really good information access. It's not smart, or dumb, or anything "human" .
Re: AI Police Reports: Year in Review
#45What 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".
> a lot of people seem to see LLMs as smarter than themselves
Well, in many cases they might be right..
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 i…
Do you have any links you could share to content you found especially insightful about AI use in China?
I’ve been hunting for a link I found here on HN, which discussed how policy /government elites in China looked at AI.
Sadly, the search for that link continues.
I did find these from SCMP and Foreign Policy, but there are better articles out there.
- https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/20/china-ai-race-jobs-yout...
- https://www.scmp.com/specialist-publications/special-reports...
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 i…
Do you have any links you could share to content you found especially insightful about AI use in China?
I don't know if it supports their particular point, but Machine Decision is Not Final seems like a very cool and interesting look at China's culture around AI:
https://www.urbanomic.com/book/machine-decision-is-not-final...
Re: AI Police Reports: Year in Review
#48The experiments of AI agents sending emails to grown-ups are good I think – AIs are doing much more dangerous stuff like these AI Police Reports. I don't think making a fuss over every agent-sent email is going to cause other AI incursion into our society to slow down. The Police Report writer is a non-human partially autonomous participant like a K9 officer. It's wishful thinking that AIs aren't going to be set loos…
I'm curious about this claim. What about agents sending emails to each other is good?
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#49I find this article strange in its logic. If the use of AI generated content is problematic as a principle I can understand the conflict. Then no AI should be used to "transcribe and interpret a video" at all - period. But if the concern is accuracy in the AI "transcript" and not the support from AI as such, isn't it a good thing that the AI generated text is deleted after the officer has processed the text and final…
My worry is at scale AI from one vendor can introduce biases. We wont know what those biases are. But whatever they are the same bias affects all reports.
That is something to worry about, agreed. So, the quality and the reliance of AI is what we should focus on. In addition we should be able to keep track (and records of) how AI has used and build its narrative and conclutions.
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AI is smarter than everyone already. Seriously, the breadth of knowledge the AI possesses has no human counterpart.
Man, what are we supposed to do with people who think the above?
Just brace for the societal correction.
There's a lot of things going on in the western world, both financial and social in nature. It's not good in the sense of being pleasant/contributing to growth and betterment, but it's a correction nonetheless.
That's my take on it anyway. Hedge bets. Dive under the wave. Survive the next few years.