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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 23 points 7 months ago

Is it done to give them home quicker? Is it?

*sigh*

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

From the screen grabs, Since when is a legally street parked RV a homeless encampment? Looks like picking low hanging fruit for campaign talking points.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I'm going to choose to believe that the goal is to know how to more efficiently deliver aid to those that need it

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

Holy Mackerel! Could this be any more of an extremely boring dumb and awful cyberpunk dystopia? Good God!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

Every year California is becoming more like Night City. Cyperpunk is supposed to be a dystopia, not an aspiration.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

disgraceful. If I ever meet somebody involved in this....

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