At least 54 US cities have canceled or rejected Flock license plate camera contracts in 2026 as privacy concerns and false alerts spark nationwide backlash.
  • Aatube@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Since I’m not sure what this means, I must have not be clear enough; apologies. Gadget Review’s articles (one of which is your link) are very likely to be AI-generated.

    • Until this summer, the frontpage showed articles being published on average every ten minutes: https://web.archive.org/web/20260326105948/https://www.gadgetreview.com/
    • Over-hypey phrases as headings: “The Only Fix That Sticks”, “You Can’t Just Hardcode Safety Into a Probability Machine”
    • Characteristic bolding
    • Unexpected bulleted lists in every article
    • Overuse of spaced em-dashes
    • Familiar sentence structures:

    Flock’s brand is damaged. Axon is winning contracts. The underlying infrastructure — persistent, automated tracking of where every car travels — keeps running, like a streaming service that changes its name while keeping the same content library.

    Non-deterministic models resist fixed rules, so the answer is containment and monitoring — not commandments.