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Turning off your phone just the easiest way to track you. With more AI based facial recognition cameras and data sharing between corporations you're still being
by pixl97 1y ago
Turning off your phone just the easiest way to track you. With more AI based facial recognition cameras and data sharing between corporations you're still being tracked in public. The digital world has shrunk the analog world to a very small place.
- hattmall 1y agoNot that I'm pro being tracked or anything, but what difference does that make to your general existence and daily adventure if there is some sort of behind the scenes tracking going on. Why would that prevent you from wandering?
- ethbr1 1y agoTracking is a necessary precursor to being able to hassle wanderers. Absent mass automated surveillance, the state's ability to do so at scale was limited. Once implemented (and processed and stored), norms on use erode over time... and then anyone anomalous is being auto background-checked when showing up in a new area. Or do we think someone won't find a use for all the dark datacenter GPU power after AI pops?
- thaumasiotes 1y ago> and then anyone anomalous is being auto background-checked when showing up in a new area. That is the historical norm. Is it supposed to be a new concept?
- pixl97 1y agoI mean, slavery is a historical norm. I'd rather not have it back.
- ethbr1 1y agoWhen has that ever been the historical norm? Even the most closed societies (say, East Germany, the USSR, and the DPRK) only accomplished a fraction of what's now technically possible, and that historical analogue through a massive human labor force.
- thaumasiotes 1y agoIt's been the historical norm for all of time, except the extremely recent past. The norm is that you're born somewhere and you stay there forever. Everyone there knows you and they've known you since you, or they, were born. If a traveler happens to show up, everyone can recognize immediately, by looking at their face, that they're from somewhere else. Strangers get low levels of trust.