The real danger is criminal profiling. Read a book on criminal profiling as done by the FBI. You hear things like "the suspect appeared nervous when his eyes saw the murder weapon" or "serial killers match two of three: cruelty to animals, obsession with fire-setting, and persistent bedwetting past the age of five" (aka Macdonald triad). Impulsive killers are in their teens or early 20s, while more careful killers will be at least in their 30s.
I'm sure the motives were good - sometimes it's like finding a needle in a haystack, and it saved lives back then.
But you have mass surveillance, you can go through every hay in the haystack. Yet likely they won't. They'll settle on a middle ground with these outdated methodologies, and combine it with AI/data, to create some form of data-driven astrology. Someone will be inspired by CSI to ask AI to blow up a blurry photo, and AI might just hallucinate it. There will be experts out there who would oppose this, and these could be shut down by their bosses, the politicians who don't understand how it all works.
The Macdonald triad detects the worst criminals, sure, but it mainly detects victims of abuse. Privacy isn't important to the privileged groups; but it's a level of protection for the innocents who could be profiled wrongly.
It's worth dropping the Danish film Riders of Justice in this thread for people who haven't seen it. In the film, a facial recognition algorithm is created, and after some tinkering with the accuracy they are able to find who they are looking for - I won't spoil it, but highly suggest the movie.
lol i'm always spell checking with google, course probably a small percentage of alternative spellings will probably be hallucinated by google's chatbot but thats just the cost of doing business nowadays. my poor grammar is all me tho.
I'm reminded of "ruin my search history" which when clicked will have your browser search for not only "isis application" and "hotels syria" but things like "how to kill someone hypothetically"
There could be one-click-implication on a target person.
I'm sure the motives were good - sometimes it's like finding a needle in a haystack, and it saved lives back then.
But you have mass surveillance, you can go through every hay in the haystack. Yet likely they won't. They'll settle on a middle ground with these outdated methodologies, and combine it with AI/data, to create some form of data-driven astrology. Someone will be inspired by CSI to ask AI to blow up a blurry photo, and AI might just hallucinate it. There will be experts out there who would oppose this, and these could be shut down by their bosses, the politicians who don't understand how it all works.
The Macdonald triad detects the worst criminals, sure, but it mainly detects victims of abuse. Privacy isn't important to the privileged groups; but it's a level of protection for the innocents who could be profiled wrongly.