Unfiltered Story #418442

I work in the assessment department of a property tax center. A coworker in the litigation department received a letter from a property owner who received a property tax bill in which an in-ground swimming pool was detected (which increases the property tax), except that he has no swimming pool.
So she asked us for information.
Coworker 2: The AI detected a swimming pool.
Me: Did you do a human verification?

It’s mandatory to do a human verification.
Coworker 2: I can’t, I don’t have a car.
Me: Neither do I, but we’re not the ones going there anyway. We still have to send someone to check, we have to send mobile agents.
Coworker: But the AI detected the pool!

We sent a field agent anyway. He came back to confirm that there was an error. And we removed the swimming pool from the property tax.

What did the AI mistake for a swimming pool at the person’s house who filed the dispute? A blue tarp…