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Re:A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged o... by coldtea on Sunday August 22, 2021 @10:34AM (#28265794)
>So the AI didn’t even make the call. The staff did, manually.

(a) The staff of the company who makes the AI, which would have an incentive to make the AI's original judgement appear accurate?

(b) The staff of a company paid by the state/police, which aims to please its customers?

(c) Was the staff trained/experts in recognizing such sounds, or were they random AI company employees, which just made a judgement call? If so, was this call presented as AI-supported to the trial, and was it sold as anything beyond "some devs, no gun experts, mind you, heard this recording and said this must be a gunshot".

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Re:A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged o... by dylan604 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @11:41AM (#28266359)
It could come at the behest of police as in "it would be really helpful to our case if there was ShotSpotter evidence to support our cased". It could come from the fact that ShotSpotter is losing customers, and willing to do anything to make the product "feel" more valuable to the police to ensure cash cows keep producing.

The modern criminal investigation has so much negative baggage attached, from historical shenianigans, that it's easy to find ways to question the prosecution's case.

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