Some really crazy cases in here
- cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times
- cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason
- cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired
Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people
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On today's pod:
- Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks
- Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal:
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There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
Researchers report a "serendipitous" discovery while watching videos of crowds: an inexplicable bias toward counterclockwise turning that may be rooted in biology.
Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code are making memes about how bad it is. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social explains.
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Here's how we got a bunch of internal Google memes that mock how bad Google's AI actually is
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Also in this episode, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social on how Microsoft wrote in official company documents that they wanted to "make people addicted" to their new AI assistant called Scout.
This comes as lawsuits grow against AI companies over addiction.
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The known cases of police using Flock to stalk people are almost certainly a vast underreporting of the overall abuse, because they largely include only cases in which the behavior was so egregious that it led to police officers being fired, arrested, or both.
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
404 Media
This is the next stage of license plate reader companies: they want to add or source additional data that lets them jump from vehicle/plate to occupant/person. Flock was building a tool that used hacked data to do this www.404media.co/license-plat...
Researchers report a "serendipitous" discovery while watching videos of crowds: an inexplicable bias toward counterclockwise turning that may be rooted in biology.
www.404media.co
Flock, which has license plate readers (LPRs) all around the country, wants police to be able to “jump from LPR to person,” according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media.
