• eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    The AI gets to accuse you based on a bad guess, while you have to file paperwork and surrender more personal data to prove you didn’t steal a pack of vitamins. »Innocent until proven guilty« is now a premium feature.

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      1 day ago

      Innocent until proven guilty was always the highest tier wealthy only premium. Everyone else is expected to plea bargain down to a crime they didn’t commit.

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      1 day ago

      if you’re a billionaire you can be proven guilty and still be considered innocent

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        20 hours ago

        A false accusation of theft is literally Libel.

        So anybody rich enough or who is a Lawyer or Judge can easilly take them to Court for it and win compensation.

        As with most nasty things, it’s only done to the riff-raff, not the upper-middle and upper class.

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          A false accusation of theft is literally Libel

          Not if it’s only to you. Defamation happens when an accusation is published such that it could damage your reputation.

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            7 hours ago

            True. If nobody else is told about it it’s not Libel.

            So they would have to stop that person not in public or very very discretely, only one person could be involved from their side (otherwise somebody would be telling somebody else) and the person stopped could simply refuse and walk away because if they called the authorities by telling them that person had stolen something, it would be Libel (or worse - I believe it’s also a crime to falsely report a crime).

            Ultimately, it boils down to had they witnessed it or not - had they seen it on camera then they did, had they just blindly relied on the AI flagging it without actually checking it, then they did not, and “the AI told us so” wouldn’t fly in Court if they didn’t cross-checked the AI system and it turned out they had made an accusation of a Crime against somebody to somebody else or the authorities without actually checking it.

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              2 hours ago

              if they called the authorities by telling them that person had stolen something, it would be Libel

              It would not. I resent that. Libel is written. In speech, it’s slander.