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Comment by newtonsmethod

I have made no comments on this thread before the one above.

So saying you said something because my non-existent position is "absurd" and "clearly false" indicates massive levels of confusion.

You then go on to imply I haven't read the article, using an acronymised swear (I'm not a pious person but clearly directing a swear to someone makes a message come off as aggressive), even though your understanding of what I said is based off non-existent messages. (This is quite ironic).

Flock is a company. Companies are a type of organisation: it makes no sense to describe a company as AI, as AI is a type of computer system. It may make sense to say Flock is an AI-based company, but calling them "AI" in itself makes no sense.

I can't find anything indicating that an LLM was used in this case, and this county seems to mainly have Falcon cameras (https://www.scribd.com/document/983922612/250730110407Flock-...). Reverse engineering seems to indicate these are powered by non-LLM AIs like Tensorflow vision NNs. These have been around for ages, and notably no-one is alleging these models hallucinated etc.

People also (perhaps wrongly) use "Flock" to refer to the camera system. CrendKing explicitly calls "Flock" a "camera system". A system of cameras is not AI, and the point of the comment seems to be that it's inappropriate to bring up LLM related AI fears about this system.

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