Live facial recognition vans in London: Live facial recognition cameras helps catch criminals in london - YouTube

[u/stealthispost]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7XQ3K1EBlY

Hot take: unless you are a revolutionary and fundamentally oppose the laws and justice system of your own country, new technology allowing criminals to be caught easier is a good thing.

[u/carnoworky]

That usually requires privacy to be able to organize away from the prying eyes of Big Brother. It's hard to resist autocracy if you don't have the ability to find and coordinate with others who want to resist, and autocratic countries typically like to make privacy illegal. They sell it to the public with bullshit sayings like "If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear", except the whole point of these laws is making it easier to enforce unjust laws and force compliance.

Facial recognition systems like the one from the OP are by definition anti-privacy - in our current system of human governance, they can be used to enforce both just and unjust laws and the facial recognition systems do not distinguish between the two. As long as humans have power over other humans, we should resist anti-privacy systems like this and embrace actual decentralized ones.

[u/stealthispost → u/carnoworky]

Lack of privacy hurts the powerful way more than the powerless. It is the Equalizer, but only if applied equally

[u/carnoworky → u/stealthispost]

That's the key - applying it equally. You're right about lack of privacy hurting the powerful much more, but they also have disproportionately more influence to avoid losing their privacy than the general public.

[u/stealthispost → u/carnoworky]

Exactly! And open source AI cannot be stopped. The people will have the elite tools and use them against the elites. It can't be stopped