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

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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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[-] wolfruff@pawb.social 1 points 7 months ago

Hate my state.

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world -3 points 7 months ago

By all means, find a better one.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not... Everyone can afford to pick up everything and move or they may have other factors like job and family keeping them there

[-] wolfruff@pawb.social -1 points 7 months ago

Yeah im trying my damnest but this state is meant to keep people poor.

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