Big Brother on Wheels: Trash Trucks With AI Cameras Are Coming to a City Near You
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/66224507
Since April, over 21,000 properties across Dallas, Texas, have been photographed by these cameras and assigned a “blight score”—essentially an official tidiness grade—according to a Wednesday report from the city’s local NBC affiliate. The zip codes with the highest number of civic code violations flagged by the cameras, according to the report, were concentrated in the city’s lower-income southern quadrant. Around 1,800 “courtesy notices” have already been issued by the municipal government to the owners of lower-scoring properties: a warning to clean up their act or start paying fees.
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Should be easy-peasy to have a model that uses those very same images to recognize yard signs and posters that show support for a Democratic congresman.
And that’s not even mentioning all the incriminating crap a camera might pick already while peeking through your window.
The only thing that could possibly make this worse is if the camera’s were produced in China…
Trash on trash collecting trash to produce more trash is pretty trashy.
I wonder what a very powerful and very small IR light flooding the street would do to those cameras?
Certainly a laser would be bad for it.
City enforcement codes are already a tax on the poor, this will just make it a more-enforced tax.