5 comments

  • futuraperdita8 minutes ago
    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".
  • wyldfire1 hour ago
    &gt; important first step in reigning in AI police reports.<p>That should be &#x27;reining in&#x27;. &quot;Reign&quot; is -- ironically - - what monarchs do.
    • DetectDefect1 hour ago
      Such innocent mistakes make me smile these days because it gives assurance a real human wrote them.
      • lithocarpus12 minutes ago
        Don&#x27;t worry sufficiently advanced LLMs will learn how to put in the right amount of typoes to be convincing.
      • cyberax12 minutes ago
        Unless it&#x27;s an LLM instructed to make occasional mistakes.
  • intended1 minute ago
    [delayed]
  • avidiax1 hour ago
    This does sound problematic, but if a police officer&#x27;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&#x27;t usually face repercussions for inaccuracies or outright lying in court.<p>&gt; That means that if an officer is caught lying on the stand – as shown by a contradiction between their courtroom testimony and their earlier police report<p>The bigger issue, that the article doesn&#x27;t cover, is that police officers may not carefully review the AI generated report, and then when appearing in court months or years later, will testify to whatever is in the report, accurate or not. So the issue is that the officer doesn&#x27;t contradict inaccuracies in the report.
    • parineum27 minutes ago
      &gt; My impression is that police don&#x27;t usually face repercussions for inaccuracies or outright lying in court.<p>That&#x27;s because it&#x27;s a very difficult thing to prove. Bad memories and even completely false memories are real things.
      • BrenBarn4 minutes ago
        That&#x27;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).
  • throw-12-161 hour ago
    “Fighting back” = adding a disclaimer.<p>You guys are so fucked.
    • hackyhacky1 hour ago
      &gt; You guys are so fucked.<p>&quot;You guys&quot;? Everyone is fucked. This is going to be everywhere. Coming to your neighborhood, eventually.
      • Zaphoos25 minutes ago
        Not everyone lives in a 3rd world authoritarian backwater, its time to stop that ridiculous US-centrism
      • throw-12-1643 minutes ago
        I dont live in a police state.
        • fouc23 minutes ago
          I guess that means you don&#x27;t live in the US, or in the UK, or in Australia.
        • parineum26 minutes ago
          You either don&#x27;t have police reports or some amount of your country&#x27;s police reports aee written by AI.<p>I&#x27;d be more worried that you aren&#x27;t reading articles about it than if you were.
          • throw-12-169 minutes ago
            Considering that AI can barely write in my native language I am not worried.<p>There are countries on this planet that are not actively digging their own graves.