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Non-smoker fined £433 for dropping cigarette butt in Manchester
(www.theguardian.com)
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Look, I hate the intrusion into our lives of unaccountable computer systems as anyone. But this article has nothing to do with facial recognition or AI. It's a bureaucratic fuck up.
Manchester City Council don't even own or operate any facial recognition equipment at this point. Greater Manchester Police do, but they've only purchased it a month or so ago (after this story even unfolded) and they've only deployed it a couple of times so far and only at mass events. And Greater Manchester Police aren't the issuing body of the fixed penalty notice.
Conflating genuine human and computer errors with AI just makes us look like crazy people shouting at clouds.