Comment on AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The term “AI” has been misused and misrepresented so much that it’s more of an aesthetic than a technology now.
The main thing flock is really supposed to do is capture and match pictures of license plates at different locations. It’s not even complex.
So how tf did they get the green light for the first government contract if they never even had that capability?
Yeah I don’t understand how a private company deploying cameras on the side of roads is even legal.
Does that mean I can build solar powered raspberry pi units with cameras that do the same thing and pepper them around the country without question?
Thus has been the norm for years. Those red light and speed cameras in your town are also owned by private companies.
It means you should definitely try! And make a documentary.
Either they conned the government org in charge of purchasing it, or that org just didn’t care enough to look deeper. They got a professional-looking demo that made it look like the tech worked, and signed the contract without a second thought.
The history of the organization seems very odd
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety
It began as a side project in which the three co-founders built their first video surveillance cameras by hand around Langley’s dining room table. When a DeKalb County detective told Langley that his camera product had helped with solving a home break-in, Langley called the two other co-founders and told them to quit their jobs.
What?? How did a detective use it to solve a crime? Who was he? And based off of this one dude you all 3 just quit your jobs??? What??
Then we just jump ahead to 2022 and these cameras that didn’t even work had raised over $380 million in venture funding?
Then by the next year they were being used to sub for actual police due to a shortage of police officers?
It began as a side project in which the three co-founders built their first video surveillance cameras by hand around Langley’s dining room table. When a DeKalb County detective told Langley that his camera product had helped with solving a home break-in, Langley called the two other co-founders and told them to quit their jobs.
That reads exactly like those made up masturbatory LinkedIn anecdotes. I guarantee that this “Langley” guy is the one that edited the page to put it there.
Truly fucked up !
Venture trust or something.
fullsquare@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
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