I’m not opposed to the technology. An aid for prosopagnosia would actually be an excellent use of this tech.

But, yeah one individual using it as an aid vs an increasingly authoritarian government creating an entire surveillance network to track people is some bullshit.

I hate when people claim that something like that is inevitable, and if you disagree, then you’re anti-tech or inhibiting progress. Society is supposed to control technology, tech isn’t supposed to control society. If we’re not dictating how the tech is being used on us, then one powerful individual or group of individuals is using tech to control us.

I try not to put pictures of my kid’s face on the internet. Now every time we leave our house, somebody is going to have the ability to save images of my kid to a database, and track our movements around the city. I have no way of knowing what they actually do with those images once they’re saved, and who all might be accessing this system and database.

Knowing for a fact that our government caters to and protects pedophiles and trafficking networks, how can anybody expect me to just accept this as inevitable progress, and not fight like hell to stop it from happening?

The headline is a bit misleading. This isn’t run of the mill dystopia. Police in Indiana are using AI software to write reports for them based on AI analysis of body cam footage. AI hallucinations are then inserted into police reports. Then the false reports that contain information about events that never happened are being submitted to courts without being verified

Once an AI hallucination is on record as a documented event, it becomes difficult to remove it from the record, and it can ruin people’s lives.