no paywall https://archive.md/1lSRA
I got a captcha on the archive, but was able to read the original just fine. I guess archives are not necessarily lower barrier.
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2025
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Do you want to badly fuck up a society? Because that is how you badly fuck up a society.
Isn't this the plot of Shimoneta?
I mean pretty stupid to write that in the schools chat app, use signal or shit just regular iMessage
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Anything with a very low rate of true positives applied to a large population is going to have an insane false positive rate. EG a 1 in 7M issue applied to 70M students with a 1% false positive rate would produce 700k false positives. Worse people who are actually planning a school shooting may be more likely to avoid telegraphing their intentions. So you could damage 700k kids futures and traumatize them without even catching many or any of the killers.
Sounds more like they are maybe using ML classifiers on all the communications they are spying on by conventional means. To me that's not the same as using AI to spy but whatever.
Some good news here is that if they apply this to society as a whole the jails would be too full, keep saying the no-no words online!
Shouldn't they have used AI to collect the messages and then have a human manually intervene?
Hope the kids find the people responsible and do everything I know a teenager to be able to do to make their lives waking nightmares.