Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/25/san-jose-homelessness-ai-detection

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brown567@sh.itjust.works · 54 pts · 2y (2 replies)

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Like, I expect humanity to do some messed-up things with technology, but using it to pinpoint human suffering for the exclusive purpose of exacerbating it was beyond what I could anticipate

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 17 pts · 2y

Oh, let me pull you up a chair…

andlewis@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 2y (4 replies)

To help them, right?

Right?

Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Wrong.

Hellfire missile. Instantly.

Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

No one expects the R9X Knife Missile!

Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Driving too fast? Hellfire missile

Too slow? Hellfire missile

Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y

Staying perfectly still?

Believe it or not this is loitering, or illegal standing.

Hellfire missile.

ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml · 33 pts · 2y

This seems like a practical thing to pump resources into. Way better than wasting those resources on silly things like providing people with shelter or food

rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Why don't you pour resources into preventing homelessness in the first place you twats

IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

There's no money in it. Nothing happens in this country without someone making a profit.

AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
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HonorableScythe@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

Why waste money on housing people when you can evict them and spend it on a five acre dog park?

Tolstoshev@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y