In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial:
www.404media.co/judge-learns...
I'm aware of a at least a couple of situations where cops were caught doing improper lookups and were either put on leave or mildly disciplined, but weren't fired or arrested, or in which the cop wasn't named and so there was little or no reporting on it
Notably, some pro privacy rights groups have identified police abuse on their own by analyzing public records reports. Folks with DeFlock Joplin in Joplin, Missouri, obtained Flock lookup audits, found anomalous searches, and got a police officer fired:
Amazon employees are posting memes on Slack about how their AI coding tool sucks www.404media.co/sloppenheime...
public databases and analyses have identified more than the 15 cases Flock admits to.
This is almost definitely a vast underreporting of stalking cases, because many of the cases we know of are extremely egregious (hundreds of searches + physical abuse/stalking) and were not detected for months
Amazon employees are mocking the company's AI with memes on Slack, suggesting they're making/enabling slop:
www.404media.co/sloppenheime...
When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.
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New: Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people. Seemingly every week there's a new case, the details usually similar. Cops use unfettered access to Flock to surveil an ex. They most often search their plates hundreds of times over course of months
www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...
Flock admits it is "aware of 15 incidents of abuse, each surfaced because of the transparency and accountability features deliberately built into our platform."
The truth in many of the cases we analyzed is that the abuse was reported by the person being stalked OR citizens analyzing public records
Jason Koebler
Jason Koebler
FCC is trying to kill burner phones: www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...
Jason Koebler
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse s...
