Many users criticized ShotSpotter for persistent false positives and ineffectiveness after Cambridge disabled it over racism claims, while one defended the system by downplaying those errors.
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@hope_in_light @mattparlmer The false positive case on this is "two cops waste ten minutes," so unless the false positive rate is so high as to make the system unusable I don't really see why this needs to be rigorously red teamed as though a false positive is some kind of horrifying result.
@mattparlmer @DanielleFong It is urban myth that someone said it is racist. The problem ist it doesn’t work. Allinpodcast said leftwing said it is racist. So dumb and dumber came up with it.
@mattparlmer Good idea in theory, in practice they never solved their false positive problem, and empirically it was found that it was only seconds faster than human reporting in most cases
@mattparlmer did they ever figure out how to stop reporting every loud noise as a gunshot or is the false reporting machine still gospel
@hope_in_light @mattparlmer The false positive case on this is "two cops waste ten minutes," so unless the false positive rate is so high as to make the system unusable I don't really see why this needs to be rigorously red teamed as though a false positive is some kind of horrifying result.
@mattparlmer @DanielleFong It is urban myth that someone said it is racist. The problem ist it doesn’t work. Allinpodcast said leftwing said it is racist. So dumb and dumber came up with it.
@mattparlmer Good idea in theory, in practice they never solved their false positive problem, and empirically it was found that it was only seconds faster than human reporting in most cases
@mattparlmer did they ever figure out how to stop reporting every loud noise as a gunshot or is the false reporting machine still gospel
Many users criticized ShotSpotter for persistent false positives and ineffectiveness after Cambridge disabled it over racism claims, while one defended the system by downplaying those errors.
Based on 4 visible X reactions from 7 accounts; directional sample.
Ask a question below.
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