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I thought the social credit score thing coupled with facial recognition and ubiquitous online monitoring was fairly modern.
by jobigoud 7y ago
I thought the social credit score thing coupled with facial recognition and ubiquitous online monitoring was fairly modern.
- yorwba 7y agoIt's certainly intended to be modern, but the implementation is very different from how people imagine it to be. The "social credit system" is far from being automated; all current pilot projects involve officials leaving remarks on someone's file. The only novelty is that the file is digital and the remark may have a point value assigned. Every time a new issue blows up on social media, the "ubiquitous online monitoring" (read: thousands of people whose job it is to remove objectionable content) takes days to clean up the outraged comments posted in a few hours. Facial recognition is maybe the most futuristic, but unless they magically achieve higher precision than anyone else, filtering the results is still going to require lots of manual work. Otherwise they might accidentally offend someone with connections: https://www.scmp.com/tech/innovation/article/2174564/facial-recognition-catches-chinas-air-con-queen-dong-mingzhu https://www.scmp.com/tech/innovation/article/2174564/facial-...
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoThat’s in subjugation, not propaganda or controlling public sentiment, which is still very primitive by the standards of how western politicians do it much more subtly.