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Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Stopthatgirl7 to c/technology

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Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’ algorithms to detect the unwanted objects, according to interviews and documents the Guardian obtained through public records requests.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Good for the EU I guess?

I was talking about it in the US, where the article is focused.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but the EU is setting legal precident here that American legislation should follow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh boy, I have some news for you ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Defeatism only helps the thugs who benefit from chaos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I think you may be miscalculating the opinion of the American public. "It's European law" isn't exactly a selling point for a lot of folks.