Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/armed-police-swarm-student-after-ai-mistakes-bag-of-doritos-for-a-weapon-3273512/

32 comments

  1. That America needs gun detection systems and police at schools is concerning enough.

    But on top of that, the “detection” systems don’t even work. How do you mistake a fucking bright red plastic bag for a gun…

  2. Kid’s gonna have a real chip on his shoulder against AI for the rest of his life.

  4. they were armed with a near lethal amount of extreme nacho flavor

  6. How hard is it to have just one human in the loop for verification before calling the cops?

  7. I’ve got a friend who is totally onboard with AI. Absolutely convinced it can already do 100% of jobs humans do. 

    I point out stuff like this about how it can’t tell Doritos apart from a gun and he says it’s just being used wrong. 

  12. Okay, hold the FUCK up. They’re trusting AI, which can’t be trusted to do basic math or pull simple answers from the internet, to identify firearms in schools? That’s…oof.

  14. That’s what happens when you start mixing with other kinds than yourself. Of course you’ll get yourself in trouble if your name is Taki and you get caught eating Doritos.

  17. Whatever about calling it protocol to respond when you think there is a gun, but own it when you fuck up. Kid should be getting a formal apology at minimum

  18. i wonder if there is algorithmic bias here or if it really did just look at the chip bag

  19. It’s a bit ironic that a kid named Taki got detained/arrested for holding a bag of Doritos.

  20. honestly im kind of impressed that a high school has such a system in place and that the response time was 20 minutes.

    sucks that the kid had to go through that. i hope the technology and the cameras improve, but if it can reduce the number of school shootings, or decrease the number of victims, or decrease the response time to a real incident, its hard for me to argue against its use.

    Theres been almost 90 school shooting fatalities in the US since 2022. if i had a kid in high school, i would want these safe guards rather than not, despite the chances of a false positive.

    how many false positive responses would need to occur to outweigh reducing fatalities by even one.

  21. Good thing he wasn’t carrying Cheetos. I’ve heard they’re Dangerously Cheesy.

  22. > Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,”

    Last I checked, false positives are a sign of malfunction. Or is the fact that the kid was black the quiet part?

  23. I sense an opportunity for him to have his college fully funded.

  24. “No, it’s chips” is a great symbol for false/forced-aggression from law enforcement against POC. It’s so perfect.

    Bro. I’m not here to cause trouble. I’m here to eat chips.

  26. Cheetos I would understand. They are, of course, dangerously cheesy.

  30. Dog Pig Dog Pig Dog Pig Loaf of bread SYSTEM ERROR

  31. Maybe it was a delivery mixup, and somebody out there is wondering what happened to their Dorito detector.

  32. Has anyone else been pulled over for a traffic violation at gun point (several times) or is that just me?

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