AI resume tool error pushed new ICE agents into the field without proper training.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ice-error-meant-recruits-sent-field-offices-proper-training-sources-sa-rcna254054

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  1. Most of the new applicants were flagged as law enforcement officers, even though many had no experience in any police or federal law enforcement agency, according to the report. The officials said the AI tool sent people with the word “officer” on their résumés to the shorter four-week online training — for example, a “compliance officer” or people who said they aspired to be ICE officers.

    The program requires four weeks of online training. Meanwhile, applicants without law enforcement backgrounds must take an eight-week in-person course at ICE’s academy at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia.

    Despite these clear distinctions, the AI tool sorted all applicants with the word “officer” in their resume into the group with the shorter online training. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ai-error-ice-agents-training-b2901196.html

  2. So who reported this “fault” if not those who run the process themselves? Do regular people have access to their tools?

    That is one of the excuses of all time, the best excuse, truly the strongest excuse there is.

    I doubt they give a shit who they recruit, it’s obvious they are desperate for sadists to join up, but they are shivering in their boots from public backlash so very few want in on this shitshow, so they just take in anyone.

  3. promiscuous_horse on

    “The officials said the AI tool sent people with the word “officer” on their résumés to the shorter four-week online training — for example, a “compliance officer” or people who said they aspired to be ICE officers.”

    They’re giving mall cops and COD tryhards ARs and tear gas

  4. ‘Error’

    I’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot more of these ‘errors’ when Palantir starts issuing warrants for US citizens arrest 

  5. Exciting_Ad4264 on

    “Training” is a big fuckin stretch. But nazis never care about the details, just how many people they can hurt

  6. Actual__Wizard on

    Wow it’s amazing, they used some AI and it made a bunch errors. I’m going to have somebody try to defend this crap tech… It’s guaranteed.

    The fake AI that we all know doesn’t work right…

  7. stjohns_jester on

    If folks really wanted to protest ICE, they should join and gum up the system from the inside, like report other agents for misconduct, plant drugs on other agents, purposely drive to the wrong area, damage rural folks shit with their equipment, etc, and eventually aim to be fired. Like every college kid should take a year off and do this.

    It sounds like they hardly vet, as evidenced by them blaming AI here

  8. It’s always the technology’s fault, and not the brain rot dick fucks running the agency.

  9. Whatever happened to disgraced “actor” Dean Cain? I remember he joined and was too fat for an obstacle course. Haven’t heard anything since.

  10. astrozombie2012 on

    Yeah sure, it was an accident… whatever, 47 days isn’t enough to work at Walmart let alone the fucking unlimited immunity murder corps

  11. BrothelWaffles on

    So are they gonna be pulling these guys from the field and properly training them now that they found this out?

  12. 1) Bullshit

    2) The “trained” persons are given less than 6 weeks of unstructured, unaccredited training that amounts to little more than ROTC-style “boot camp.”

    Zero of these bastards have ANY training for what they’re doing and have zero respect for the law or the constitution.

    That is not an error. That’s the point.

  13. That’s the new excuse when someone fucks up ….the AI did it! ¯⁠⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

  14. >“They were using AI to scan résumés and found out a bunch of the people who were LEOs weren’t LEOs,” one of the officials said.

    >The AI tool was initially the mechanism used to categorize résumés, the officials said and flagged anyone with the word “officer” on their résumés — for example, a “compliance officer” or people who said they aspired to be ICE officers.

    Is that an “error” or is it the result of idiot humans using an unintelligent tool and thinking it was making real decisions? Again and again we see people unleashing AI slop with no guardrails and not bothering to use humans to check anything it’s doing.

    And that’s not even getting into the fact that the Trump administration thinks 4 weeks of ONLINE TRAINING is sufficient for anyone with “law enforcement experience” (like a fucking mall cop) to go out into the field and begin detaining people.

  15. reformedmell0w on

    they literally turned how long they’re trained for into a hollow political statement even though it’s obvious that 47 days is nowhere near enough for adequate training to perform similar duties to police or military

    but of course not only is this article nothing about the actual obvious corruption of that duration, but it also seems to indicate that no agents are trained for 47 days at all. it’s four weeks or eight weeks. super awkward

  16. Kind of ironic how an outfit named ICE operates under the principle of “baptism by fire”