“We’re not detecting folks,” Tawfik said. “We’re detecting encampments. So the interest is not identifying people because that will be a violation of privacy.”
BUT WHO LIVES IN THE ENCAMPMENTS?! DO ‘FOLKS’ LIVE IN THE ENCAMPMENTS?!What a waste of resources. They just proved sweeps don’t change crime rates.
Oh was this about crime prevention? I thought it was simply about giving cops more money and pumping dollerydoos into Silicon Valley’s pockets.
Well they also love bullying the homeless; gets the cops something to do that isn’t murdering people over petty crimes and racism. Doesn’t get the public as riled up either, since most are already well practiced in ignoring the unhoused.
Time to set up tarps at random locations around the city to stretch police resources
Five bucks says this involves one or more Israeli tech companies. Not that we don’t have plenty of our own domestically.
Now this is the proper dystopian use of AI I was promised.
This could be used for good to help speed up outreach efforts, but I think we all know how this is going to be used.
