Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show

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• Heresy_generator@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The specific incident in question was a grand larceny case where two men tried (and failed) to steal a robot owned and operated by Serve Robotics, which ultimately wants to deploy “up to 2,000 robots” to deliver food for UberEats in Los Angeles. The suspects were arrested and convicted.

  So it wasn't like some incidental crime that happened to be filmed by the robot, they were literally trying to steal the robot. I mean... of course the victims provided the police with the evidence they had to help convict the people who tried to rob them?

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  • PHLAK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yup, we’re done here. Mods can turn the comments off now.

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  • Swim@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ya this is classic rage bait for those that dont actually read the article. got to that same paragraph and noped the fuck outta the article

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  • bestnerd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The videos of people breaking them, riding them, humping them, stealing food out of them, is so fucking on point about how some of our behavior. Why would any company trust that these things would not get fucked with?

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    • mihnt@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh they know they will, but they've chalked that up to being cheaper than paying humans.

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  • Why9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With emergent tech you ALWAYS have to look at who’s interested.

    I don’t have facts, but I’d like to think it’s more the low and middle class who use services like Doordash and UberEats.

    I can imagine them soon introducing a way to “verify” the correct customer by doing a facial scan.

    Suddenly cops are allowed to use the scanning and live feeds from these robots on the streets to keep an eye on persons of interest, and suddenly there are patrolling robots on the streets, that can grass people up without them even realising.

    You absolutely won’t see the upper class communities with these patrolling robots around (saying it’s too oppressive!), so it becomes a tool to spy on lower socio-economic communities. And of course, any attempt to damage them is met with a fine, or arrest.

    Amazon’s Ring cameras have already been used to provide recordings to cops. Those were private devices so the cops can’t just tap into them whenever they want. But a Doordash robot is fully exempt of that limitation.

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How can one "fail* to steal one of these things? They’re the size of a small cooler. Just pick it up and go.

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• ViewSonik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That website is hot garbage.

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  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    At least from a techniccal standpoint: yes.

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• YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If this is true the proceeds from any tickets or charges created should go to cover delivery fee + tip of the food.

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• Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No…shit…

  Cameras being used for surveillance? Who the heck would have thought that would be possible…

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Read the fucking article. First paragraph. That’s all you need to do.

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    • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A food delivery robot company that delivers for Uber Eats in Los Angeles provided video filmed by one of its robots to the Los Angeles Police Department as part of a criminal investigation, 404 Media has learned. The incident highlights the fact that delivery robots that are being deployed to sidewalks all around the country are essentially always filming, and that their footage can and has been used as evidence in criminal trials. Emails obtained by 404 Media also show that the robot food delivery company wanted to work more closely with the LAPD, which jumped at the opportunity.

      Again, no shit. And wait until these robots start filming inside your house bla blah blah bla.

      First paragraph didn’t add shit, but ok…

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• Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aw man. Narcbots already?

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• chriscrutch@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s the same as some random-ass human walking down the street with their phone recording something. If you’re in public you have zero expectation of privacy, especially in the era of everyone having a handheld video recording device within reach of them at all times. Any one of those humans could share video with the LAPD and no one could really say a thing.

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• snor10@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fuck.

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• iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe we need to add robots to the regular body cams.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Eye watches

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  • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The crotch itches

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d be less concerned if it was merely a private security company and not the LAPD, since it would be more likely to only be used to prevent theft and vandalism of the robots themselves.

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