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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      4 days ago

      Gadget Review gets articles out at an impossible frequency and often simply recycles other sources. Yahoo News is a feed reader that only displays news from other websites (while obscuring source information that could be gleaned from URLs), whose identity it displays at the top of each article (in this case, Gadget Review).

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
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        4 days ago

        You people are relentless, except on Democrats being your savior.

        Whoops, just checked your profile, didn’t realize that’s what your account’s purpose. My b, g.

        • Aatube@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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          4 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.