Facial recognition and AI are great tools to assist law enforcement.
Relying on them as sole sources of information is just stupid.
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Facial recognition and AI are way to easy to abuse. It significantly out ways the benefits. This technology should be totally banned.
Especially AI. It will allow unprecedented and appalling levels of inequality. Like walled ghettos. Government AI scares the hell out of me
And being able to hide the usage by saying “a reliable informant …” should be criminal
The only way they will assist law enforcement in practice is giving the police and excuse to detain the wrong people.
They should only be used if they are open source, and viewable by the public to be checked for biases and bugs. Unfortunately, they are mostly black box technology made by companies.
If only there were people who could have warned us. Oh wait.
Everyone was warning us this was going on in China.
Funny how nobody holds the US government to the same standard as China's. Probably because there's a trade war going on and these fools don't realize how much propaganda they've sucked up to support it.
Please link to the Chinese media reporting on it like this is then?
This is literally holding the US to the same standards? Or do you think the article is praising the tech?
The technology allows law enforcement agencies to feed images from video surveillance into software that can search government databases or social media for a possible match.
This alone should be enough to get people to stop using corporate social media
Although this is likely from crawling, which would apply to any federated social media too once it becomes large enough to be on their radar.
Just gotta start wearing masks in public.
Wait, everyone was telling me this only happened in China.
Huh. You mean it's okay for America to spy on its citizens but not the Chinese? I guess I am a stupid tool who doesn't realize there's a trade war going on and both nations pull the exact same shit with their populace as the other.