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Canon put AI cameras in its Chinese offices that only let smiling workers inside
- doggodaddo78 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Fun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Fun "You will be happy, and you will like it." Definitely not toxic positivity.
- brodouevencode 5y agoChina is 1984, the western world Brave New World.
- raxxorrax 5y agoWho comes up with such policies? I assure you they pay employees to surveil their colleagues. Seriously, I do make buying decision from stories like this. Time to throw out my old printer, I guess. China seems to be headed straight to fascism and the management should just be ashamed. I doubt they have the capacity to feel that, but that is another matter.
- LinuxBender 5y agoDystopian toxicity aside, does this AI know real happy smile vs. fake smile? Does it recognize psychosis induced smiles? Some people smile while committing wildly malevolent actions.
- ThrowawayR2 5y agoWhile unfortunate, I seem to recall that asking employees to smile isn't without precedent in Asia, e.g. https://www.dw.com/en/smiling-is-all-part-of-the-job/a-16570276 https://www.dw.com/en/smiling-is-all-part-of-the-job/a-16570.... There is even a suggestion from a research psychiatrist in Japan for recognition of a new disorder "in which subjects develop depression and physical illness as a result of prolonged, unnatural smiling."; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_mask_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_mask_syndrome It should also be noted by those inclined to bash China in this thread that Canon is a Japanese corporation. Given the above, it may be a initiative from the parent corporation.