Synthetic Weapon Detection: Handgun vs. Bag of Chips
Fixing the "Doritos Effect": Reducing AI False Positives on Snacks & Shiny Objects
Overview
This is an open-source synthetic dataset designed to solve a specific, high-profile failure mode in Weapon Detection AI: Confusing food packaging with firearms.
In late 2025, a student in Baltimore was handcuffed because an AI security system flagged a bag of Doritos as a handgun. This happens because standard Object… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Simuletic/Weapon_Detection_Dataset_Handgun_vs_BagOfChips.