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Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)

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Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’ algorithms to detect the unwanted objects, according to interviews and documents the Guardian obtained through public records requests.

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[-] themurphy@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

How else would the mega rich be able to buy up the property and rent out the spaces for normal people to finance?

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