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[โ€“] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can record a video of someone shopping, and then feed it to a visual AI.

Blamo presto, now they're a shoplifter, or at least everyone on social media thinks they are.

The possibilities are endless.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/more-than-a-dozen-wrongful-arrests-due-to-police-reliance-on-facial-recognition-technology

Not only possible, then they'll share that data with other vendors and you'll be pre-crime-prohibited from shopping anywhere using the same stuff. It's fucking gross.