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Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.::An AI camera system installed along a major road in England caught 300 offenses in its first 3 days.There were 180 seat belt offenses and 117 mobile phone

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[-] thegreenguy@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

Why are people saying this is a hypersurveillance dystopian nightmare? Guys, you are still in public! The only difference between this and having police officers sitting there and looking is this is much cheaper and more efficient. The recordings are still being sent to a human being for review.

[-] SquishyPandaDev@yiffit.net 27 points 1 year ago

The problem is the whole "give an inch, they take a mile." We don't know what rights this may take away from us in the future. So in the now, always question

[-] PooCrafter93@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I understand this argument. In my mind there is no anonymity when driving, (and in my mind there shouldn't be) and the responsibility you have as a driver have that makes this permissible.

[-] SquishyPandaDev@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago

A valid and reasonable point. The problem is that often it spills out of it's original intent. The "think of children" argument springs to mind

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

The only difference between this and having police officers sitting there and looking is this is much cheaper and more efficient.

Sure, but that's a huge problem, because the legal system wasn't actually designed for perfectly efficient enforcement. It is important that people be able to get away with breaking the law most of the time. If all of the tens of thousands of laws on the books were always enforced we would all be in prison and bankrupt from fines. Some laws are just bad too, and the way they get repealed is when enough people get away with breaking them for long enough to build political momentum for it.

Also, it isn't like they are going to stop at using scaled-up AI surveillance just to enforce seatbelt use and texting while driving, there is way too much potential for abuse with this sort of tech. For example if there are these sorts of cameras all over, networked together, anyone with access to them can track just about everything you are doing with no way to opt out. Even if you aren't doing anything wrong the feeling that you are always being watched is oppressive and has chilling effects.

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