▲ 550 ▼ US Cities Cancel 50+ Flock Surveillance Contracts Amid Public Backlash (townflex.com) submitted 3 weeks ago by stermy4u@lemmy.world to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world 57 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/cities-ditching-flock-safety-cameras-172924943.html permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aatube@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) Gadget Review gets articles out at an impossible frequency and often simply recycles other sources. Yahoo News is a feed reader that only displays news from other websites (while obscuring source information that could be gleaned from URLs), whose identity it displays at the top of each article (in this case, Gadget Review). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) You people are relentless, except on Democrats being your savior. Whoops, just checked your profile, didn't realize that's what your account's purpose. My b, g. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aatube@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children) Since I'm not sure what this means, I must have not be clear enough; apologies. Gadget Review's articles (one of which is your link) are very likely to be AI-generated. Until this summer, the frontpage showed articles being published on average every ten minutes: https://web.archive.org/web/20260326105948/https://www.gadgetreview.com/ Over-hypey phrases as headings: "The Only Fix That Sticks", "You Can’t Just Hardcode Safety Into a Probability Machine" Characteristic bolding Unexpected bulleted lists in every article Overuse of spaced em-dashes Familiar sentence structures: Flock's brand is damaged. Axon is winning contracts. The underlying infrastructure — persistent, automated tracking of where every car travels — keeps running, like a streaming service that changes its name while keeping the same content library. Non-deterministic models resist fixed rules, so the answer is containment and monitoring — not commandments. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks ago Yes, I got you, please accept my apologies. I just picked a free version at random. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 point 3 weeks ago Axon will people catch on to axon cameras like they do with flock? lets hope so. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Aatube@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) Gadget Review gets articles out at an impossible frequency and often simply recycles other sources. Yahoo News is a feed reader that only displays news from other websites (while obscuring source information that could be gleaned from URLs), whose identity it displays at the top of each article (in this case, Gadget Review). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) You people are relentless, except on Democrats being your savior. Whoops, just checked your profile, didn't realize that's what your account's purpose. My b, g. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aatube@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children) Since I'm not sure what this means, I must have not be clear enough; apologies. Gadget Review's articles (one of which is your link) are very likely to be AI-generated. Until this summer, the frontpage showed articles being published on average every ten minutes: https://web.archive.org/web/20260326105948/https://www.gadgetreview.com/ Over-hypey phrases as headings: "The Only Fix That Sticks", "You Can’t Just Hardcode Safety Into a Probability Machine" Characteristic bolding Unexpected bulleted lists in every article Overuse of spaced em-dashes Familiar sentence structures: Flock's brand is damaged. Axon is winning contracts. The underlying infrastructure — persistent, automated tracking of where every car travels — keeps running, like a streaming service that changes its name while keeping the same content library. Non-deterministic models resist fixed rules, so the answer is containment and monitoring — not commandments. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks ago Yes, I got you, please accept my apologies. I just picked a free version at random. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 point 3 weeks ago Axon will people catch on to axon cameras like they do with flock? lets hope so. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) You people are relentless, except on Democrats being your savior. Whoops, just checked your profile, didn't realize that's what your account's purpose. My b, g. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aatube@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children) Since I'm not sure what this means, I must have not be clear enough; apologies. Gadget Review's articles (one of which is your link) are very likely to be AI-generated. Until this summer, the frontpage showed articles being published on average every ten minutes: https://web.archive.org/web/20260326105948/https://www.gadgetreview.com/ Over-hypey phrases as headings: "The Only Fix That Sticks", "You Can’t Just Hardcode Safety Into a Probability Machine" Characteristic bolding Unexpected bulleted lists in every article Overuse of spaced em-dashes Familiar sentence structures: Flock's brand is damaged. Axon is winning contracts. The underlying infrastructure — persistent, automated tracking of where every car travels — keeps running, like a streaming service that changes its name while keeping the same content library. Non-deterministic models resist fixed rules, so the answer is containment and monitoring — not commandments. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks ago Yes, I got you, please accept my apologies. I just picked a free version at random. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 point 3 weeks ago Axon will people catch on to axon cameras like they do with flock? lets hope so. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Aatube@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children) Since I'm not sure what this means, I must have not be clear enough; apologies. Gadget Review's articles (one of which is your link) are very likely to be AI-generated. Until this summer, the frontpage showed articles being published on average every ten minutes: https://web.archive.org/web/20260326105948/https://www.gadgetreview.com/ Over-hypey phrases as headings: "The Only Fix That Sticks", "You Can’t Just Hardcode Safety Into a Probability Machine" Characteristic bolding Unexpected bulleted lists in every article Overuse of spaced em-dashes Familiar sentence structures: Flock's brand is damaged. Axon is winning contracts. The underlying infrastructure — persistent, automated tracking of where every car travels — keeps running, like a streaming service that changes its name while keeping the same content library. Non-deterministic models resist fixed rules, so the answer is containment and monitoring — not commandments. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks ago Yes, I got you, please accept my apologies. I just picked a free version at random. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 point 3 weeks ago Axon will people catch on to axon cameras like they do with flock? lets hope so. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks ago Yes, I got you, please accept my apologies. I just picked a free version at random. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 point 3 weeks ago Axon will people catch on to axon cameras like they do with flock? lets hope so. permalink fedilink source parent