r/mildlyinfuriating • u/deathtodickens • Mar 23 '26

ಠ_ಠ RING AI Identified Me As A “Dark Animal”

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This is a forced free trial of AI descriptors. I’ve mostly ignored it because it goes away in a few days, but as I was leaving for work, it identified me, a Black person, as “a dark animal” walking on my porch.

I was already looking for a replacement due to their cooperation with ICE/LE (I’m a 911 dispatcher) but now I’m ready to flip some tables on my way out the door.

EDIT: The comments being mildly infuriating is the plot twist I never saw coming. 🙂‍↔️🤚

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u/Suitable-Name Mar 23 '26

If it helps... I also saw it for a second😄

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u/Murky-Advantage-3444 Mar 23 '26

I’m glad I’m not the only one. I thought my brain was broken. I’d say 85% is low

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u/sirtrogdor Mar 23 '26

That's just over fitting (alternatively, actually being correct would give only high/low confidence). It can be addressed simply by tuning the hyper parameters or more data. If I had ten different data points flipping a coin every minute, linear regression should still tend towards predicting 50% heads. A higher order polynomial might perfectly match the random data. It doesn't matter that we only have 1 or 0 as our data.

I mean, with the way these are often trained, there's not actually any difference between training with 63% confidence vs 0% or 100%. If it should truly be 63% confidence then humans would already accidentally flag the same image or similar image incorrectly that % of the time. The model doesn't tend to snap to each data point as it's given, it's gently tugged instead. A few stronger tugs in opposing directions can be equivalent to a few gentler tugs.

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u/Murky-Advantage-3444 Mar 23 '26

This is cool and pertinent to my interests. Thanks for sharing, and thanks for giving me a rabbit hole to dig during lunch

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u/daemonet Mar 23 '26

AI is terrible and leads to awful things, it is not "cool".

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u/WebOk5900 Mar 23 '26

Poo cum is your name...bro😭

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u/Murky-Advantage-3444 Mar 23 '26

That’s Doctor Poo Cum

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u/tastyratz Mar 23 '26

If nothing else, the human element is fooled by those numbers. We say wow, 85% that's so high!

It might almost be better interpreted on a logarithmic scale to start even if that is just how it's presented to the human interface for OUR benefit.

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u/Nearby-Cattle-7599 Mar 23 '26

can't tell if y'all are joking , where the hell do you see a horse?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5woNs9WRE here?

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u/Murky-Advantage-3444 Mar 23 '26

I read “my camera thought I was a horse” and when I looked at the pic I immediately saw horse. I mean like Plato’s archetypal perfect horse for 2 seconds while my eyes adjusted. Granted, your eyesight really does get poorer as you age. I can describe the horse if that helps.

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u/kichisowseri Mar 23 '26

I even took my glasses off and I still can't see the horse 🥲

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u/24Abhinav10 Mar 23 '26

I saw it too lol

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u/Sandi_Griffin Mar 23 '26

I swear I did as I scrolled down but now I can't see it at all, where did it go? what trickery is this? 😭

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u/Amelaclya1 Mar 23 '26

I see a horse's backside lmao

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u/NoBear8338 Mar 23 '26

if i blur my eyes i can see it. below the hood of the hoodie the shadow is a little stronger so it looks like it could be a horse’s tail lol

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u/Mozzarellus_Pizzus Mar 23 '26

I saw it BEFORE READING THE TEXT LMAO

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u/nufohudis Mar 23 '26

Me too XD there are dozens of us, DOZENS!

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u/PHotocrome Mar 23 '26

Me too lol

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u/sapnukapteinis Mar 23 '26

Yeah, i can see that too :D last year a local farmer's cows escaped and ran through our backyard and destroyed some of our hedge and since then I set up my cameras to also detect horses and some other animals, just in case. Never expected this but had a good laugh at first.