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

submitted 7 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 103 points 7 months ago (1 children)

quite ironically in this context, san jose is named after st. joseph -- he of the legal dad of jesus fame -- who was once famously told there was no room at the inn and had to make do in a stable.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 50 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds about right for American-christianity.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Only if you're charging a luxury room price for the stable.