@DVanLangenhove - Dries Van Langenhove
The dangers of A.I. are abstract for many people, but for me, they are very real.
In two weeks, I face years in prison because the government used an A.I. tool on a groupchat I was allegedly a member of and which was literally called "shitposting".
Their A.I. tool gave every message a 'toxicity score' and concluded most of the messages were toxic.
One of my alleged messages was "Some cultures are inferior, backwards cultures that still practice Female Genital Mutilation, for example". This message got a 100/100 toxicity score and 100/100 for sexism and 100/100 for racism. Yes, this was considered sexist by the A.I. (a punishable offence in Belgium)
Almost all of the messages the A.I. bot concluded to be 'toxic', are completely wrong. Every sentence that included "an African" was deemed racist, for example. Every sentence with "leftist tears" got 100/100 toxicity.
I (allegedly) quoted a black journalist who said something racist, but the A.I. bot does not understand this and attributed the quote to me, adding to the 'total toxicity score' that got me 1 year in jail and a 16.000 EUR fine.
There is no serious way to defend yourself against this, as the Public Prosecutor will use the 'Total Toxicity Score' as his 'evidence', instead of going over all the supposedly toxic quotes.
The Public Prosecutor's definition of 'shitposts' is also crazy: "Shitposts are deliberately insulting messages ment to provocate".
My appeal is next week.
@DVanLangenhove - Dries Van Langenhove
People seem to find this shocking, and rightfully so, but this is actually one of the lesser shocking parts of the terror that has been inflicted upon me and my friends.
Their criminal investigation was so insane and corrupt that they got scared that I would tell everyone so they tore me out of my bed, locked me up and only let me go when I signed papers in which I promised not to talk about the criminal investigation. For years, I had to go to the police station every month to present myself and pledge that I would not talk.
