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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill.
(www.statewatch.org)
Is Tom Cruise going to run the program?
Call it Minority Report
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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Because they will inevitably target minorities?
Because of the early 2000's movie Minority Report that has this exact same plot and is starred by Tom Cruise.
I feel it's time for a remake, maybe turn the three ~~sisters~~ precogs into 3 AI computers?
maybe turn the three sisters
Two of the three precogs were boys, by the way.
I definitely need to rewatch this movie again.
Niooce.
It's just institutional racism with extra steps
It's the minority report wtf
Why are they rebooting "Minority Report?" The Tom Cruise version was excellent, we don't need a new one.
Hey, remember when pre-musk twitter had to turn off their extremism automod for republican politicians because they were constantly spewing the same patterns of extremist content that actual ISIS-supporting accounts were?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I'm not superstitious, but I'm starting to think that the 30s are cursed, the closer we get to them the worse Europe gets.
Yeah, can’t say that I disagree
hey lets feed the guessing machine crime data generated from policing by a bunch of racist ass cops. No way will the resulting "predictions" be racist
at first i thought your suggestion was to feed the machine racist cops to find them and got all hyped ):
Thought crimes. Neat.
Didn't they try this in Florida and it basically became officers harassing the fuck out of a teenage kid and his mom at all hours of the night?
E: yeah, fuck this shit.
Is it gonna be a list of all the police and military?
No silly, not after they input race.
As a data engineer:
Number of subreddits banned from?....site wide, that's a lot of subreddits lol.
So what's the plan after that? You can't arrest people until after they commit the crime. Otherwise it gets confusing.
The UK isn't the US, the government can't just do whatever it wants and get away with it.
Stop falling for the liberal trap that laws and bureaucracy will somehow magically save you from fascism. It won't. This is just the start. They're slowly warming you all up to it until it's going to be too late. There's no such thing as "This can't happen here!". It definitely can, and it definitely will if you don't organise and stop it.
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It would be hilarious to see random civilians being casually followed by a policeman (policeperson?), overtly and cheerfully "nah mate, you haven't done a thing. I'm just here to watch. For now. Carry on."
Oh boy! ...Here we go, dropping a new Dystopia again!
So... What happens when it is wrong?
We find out the guy running the tool has been manipulating it and is the murderer.
Touché, indeed.
No it is never wrong, just super early. Just arrest people at 18 for crime they will do at 60 obviously.
This will only dehumanize and discriminate people that enjoy drugs or have been kicked down by society. It will never catch the people that are actual killers. The only ones that can be predicted are those kids in gangs with their machetes. But those are all a risk already.
I wonder if it will flag a lack of social care by the government as possible factor. Lmao.
social rating here we go
Was that a Black Mirror episode?
It was an episode on The Orville. Probably Black Mirror too.
Hasn't this been tried before? and failed
Let's call it project insight.
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