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Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements

https://www.ft.com/content/229e5949-3ebc-4151-8a86-a01b5e259241
51•nmstoker•1h ago

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How much did you pay for grad school? ;)
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You can usually find a way to get it for free or cheaper through a library, other institution or your employer if working in the financial sector or education.
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The price is set for people who will expense it to their employers.
embedding-shape•48m ago
> [...] he had intervened at forces that were deploying commercially available AI tools before they had been properly assessed [...] “All forces have got a good policy on the use of Copilot,” Murray said. “All forces will have a policy that says, ‘Check everything that it produces’.”

Not only are they using AI before they've properly assessed them, they also end up using Copilot which must be one of the worse AIs currently available, probably because of existing Microsoft relations. And on top of all that, they hope to be able to rely on "Please review the outputs" which obviously isn't an actual solution here, of course people will get complacent and throw stuff over the wall whenever they can.

bluefirebrand•28m ago
> on top of all that, they hope to be able to rely on "Please review the outputs" which obviously isn't an actual solution here, of course people will get complacent and throw stuff over the wall whenever they can.

This is honestly the fundamental problem of AI as I see it

When we offload our work to a different person we can calibrate our expectations to our past experiences with that person. With AI the experience is not very consistent. To use AI effectively you basically should treat it as a low trust, brand new coworker every single time you use it

That doesn't really scale, so people have two choices: be constantly hyper vigilant for mistakes the AI makes, or become complacent and trust it more than they should

People rightly point out that humans make mistakes too, not just AI. But humans have a pretty manageable cap on the amount of output they can produce. One human can pretty thoroughly review the outputs of a small team of other humans

One human can't possibly thoroughly review the volume of output that an LLM they are prompting can produce

gdulli•12m ago
Yeah, it's like declaring self driving safe because people are told to remain alert with their hands on the wheel, ready to take over in an instant. It's a charade.
tgv•25m ago
I never thought AI would be the fork in the road to Idiocracy. Can you believe that the people whose evidence and testimony in court means so much, value The Great Hallucinator over hand work? They give a few nice sounding options for using AI ("checking child porn"), but it of course won't end there. They already started. People are so fucking lazy.
techblueberry•5m ago
I feel like this is where AI like -

Are we thinking about how we’re using it, or???

It seems like; there’s two kinds of data that might go into this, boilerplate and subjective information. Subjective information should be input by the police, because I would assert the specific wording matters. It matters that the words used to describe what the policeman saw comes out of the policeman’s brain. If it’s boilerplate, I’d AI really more reliable then copy-paste?

kerabatsos•26m ago
The mindset must be that if you use AI (which I happen to advocate for) you are also responsible for the output, if you use the output publicly. AI is obviously very powerful if used responsibly - the human is responsible for it once it is used - however it’s used.
Aurornis•14m ago
> “All forces will have a policy that says, ‘Check everything that it produces’.”

Everyone I talk to (including outside of tech) is going through this phase at their companies. It’s not working.

Checking the output seems like a simple request, but the question becomes: Check against what? If the police are making a document that sources from another report that another officer used AI to produce from their notes which were also run through AI and on and on, an inconsistency that leaks in at a previous step will check out when someone reviews the output against the inputs.

We’re all also discovering that many people’s idea of reviewing the output is to skim it and verify that it looks convincing enough. Checking facts is hard and takes time. These people are using AI because they want to work less, not to give themselves extra work.

prymitive•8m ago
One can ask, what is a practical difference between “Check everything that it produces” and “Do all the work yourself”?

It’s not typing that’s the bottleneck, at least not often, so this is essentially assuming that you can do all the needed work without actually doing it, which is obviously wishful thinking.

Moving beyond fork() + exec()

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/16f01bbbb8e0d1f0/
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Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements

https://www.ft.com/content/229e5949-3ebc-4151-8a86-a01b5e259241
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