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I wonder if one of the higher powered green lasers would burn them out.
Big Brother gets bigger and more intrusive.
And yet they won’t help if you are involved in a hit and run accident to find the driver that fled the scene. “Sorry, the cameras are run by AI, and they were monitoring grandma jaywalking across the street”
If you get a “ticket” from a traffic camera in Tennessee, just throw the notice in the trash. It isn’t a real ticket and cannot affect your driving record and isn’t even sent out by the police. It’s sent out by a private company that made a deal with the mayor or city council telling them they will get them a lot of money from the traffic cam.
From the article: “Instead, they look for violations, like failure to wear a seat belt or texting while driving.”
Both of which are violations of traffic laws. They should also look for using cell phones while holding them in your hands.
So it starts. Using AI to monitor and control people. This will result in many false positives, where the angle of the shot, the lighting, reflections off the windshield and shadows will combine to produce something that is interpreted as a violation.
Then try to prove the computer was wrong.
The Chinese and Russians will simply arrange for Joe’s two-legged, light-fingered imports to steal the cameras and take the chips out of them for use in Chinese and Russian weapons.
And here we have an example of "AI" technology already being abused.
It will be abused, because it CAN be abused.
People drinking a soda while they drive will be pulled over for possible DUI.
The camera was certain it was a beer. Grounds for defamation.
I don’t drive in Britain.
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I hope no one follows the lead of the Brits and covers the cameras with burning oily rags. That would be so wrong.
We clearly need more H1Bs so big tech can build us MORE of this crap.
I understand there is like 40 or 50 pounds of copper in those systems. Be a shame if they got stolen.
Judas Priest “Electric Eye”
Up here in space
I’m looking down on you
My laser’s trace
Everything you do
You think you’ve private lives, think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape, I’m watching all the time
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
Always in focus
You can’t feel my stare
I zoom into you
But you don’t know I’m there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
Electric eye
In the sky
Feel my stare
Always there
There’s nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
I’m elected electric spy
I’m elected
Protective
Detective
Electric eye
