Big 4 consultanting forms embarass themselves using AI
The short version: A mass-surveillance watchdog channel highlights Big 4 firms getting caught using sloppy, unverified AI — a cautionary tale for unchecked surveillance tech.
Our Take
The video, from the channel Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency, catalogs Big 4 consulting firms tripping over their own AI-generated work — fabricated citations, lazy copy-paste errors, the kind of stuff that should never survive a basic review. It's a useful reminder that even the firms billed as the smartest in the room will cut corners when a shiny new tool promises to save time and money.
That matters to us because Flock Safety and the police departments buying its ALPR networks operate on the same unverified-trust model. We're told the cameras are accurate, the AI flags are reliable, the retention policies are followed to the letter — but there's rarely independent audit, and when mistakes surface (wrong plate, wrong car, wrong person stopped at gunpoint) the accountability trail is thin. If a Big 4 firm with reputational skin in the game can't be bothered to check its AI's work, why would we assume a surveillance vendor selling to hundreds of small-town police departments is doing better?
The lesson is simple: don't take vendor claims on faith, and don't assume oversight exists just because a contract was signed. Check whether ALPR cameras are already watching your neighborhood on our map, and if you want to push back on deployments near you, our take-action page has the tools to get started.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.