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fromArs Technica
1 week ago

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.

To work around those rules, the Humanizer skill tells Claude to replace inflated language with plain facts and offers this example transformation: Before: "The Statistical Institute of Catalonia was officially established in 1989, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of regional statistics in Spain." After: "The Statistical Institute of Catalonia was established in 1989 to collect and publish regional statistics." Claude will read that and do its best as a pattern-matching machine to create an output that matches the context of the conversation or task at hand.
Artificial intelligence
#ai-surveillance
fromFuturism
1 week ago
Privacy professionals

AI Surveillance Systems Are Causing a Staggering Number of Wrongful Arrests

fromAbove the Law
4 months ago
Privacy technologies

Activists Are Using AI To 'Identify' ICE Officers And That's Definitely Not Good News - Above the Law

fromFuturism
1 week ago
Privacy professionals

AI Surveillance Systems Are Causing a Staggering Number of Wrongful Arrests

fromAbove the Law
4 months ago
Privacy technologies

Activists Are Using AI To 'Identify' ICE Officers And That's Definitely Not Good News - Above the Law

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Education
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn't an error.

AI security misidentified a student's clarinet as a rifle, prompting a police-response lockdown despite human review and highlighting risks and costs of false alerts.
Privacy technologies
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Met police hails LFR after record year for arrests

Metropolitan Police deployed LFR across 203 operations, triggering 2,077 alerts (10 false positives) and resulting in 962 arrests, primarily for wanted suspects and violence offences.
Privacy technologies
fromFuturism
3 months ago

An AI Mistook a Doritos Bag for a Gun and Called the Cops on a Teenager

An AI gun-detection system misidentified a Doritos bag as a weapon, triggering armed police and raising concerns about false positives, privacy, and bias.
World news
fromenglish.elpais.com
4 months ago

In Colombia, false positives' ruling paves the way for new convictions

Colombian military units executed civilians and falsely labelled them as guerrillas; the JEP sanctioned 12 commanders, investigates senior officers, and thousands of victims remain.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 months ago

Colombian court ruling sentences 12 ex-military officers

Special Colombian court sentenced 12 former military officers to 5–8 years’ reparation work for involvement in 135 false-positive civilian killings (2002–2005).
US news
fromABC7 San Francisco
4 months ago

More Facebook, Instagram accounts falsely linked to predatory behavior restored by 7 On Your Side

Meta's teen-safety measures erroneously flagged and banned many legitimate Facebook and Instagram accounts for child sexual exploitation, with many later restored after review.
California
fromLos Angeles Times
9 months ago

Thousands of California prisoners falsely tested positive for opioids. Did it cost them their freedom?

Thousands of inmates in California received false positive drug tests due to a laboratory error, risking their parole and freedom.
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