What conspiracy? Your head is in the clouds.
You come across as a troll-shill. The meme isn’t literal, like most such things. It merely points out the possibly most impactful use case as being a more important consideration. And yes, you were doing all those things in pursuit of your argument. As well as arguing confusion.
All that response is, is one ad hominem attack after another. Your money idea is also a red herring. Of course anything related to tech and political power involves money, that is sophomore level philosophy.
The normalization of license plates readers, and their history, doesn’t contradict, or even have anything to do with, the increasing use of AI by police and government to process image and audio streams, two of the many things they are using it for. And it certainly doesn’t contradict the worry that increased data center capacity will allow the surveillance state to expand.
So that is a red herring too. You haven’t contradicted the premise of the meme at all, just used red herrings to convey ad hominem attacks.
So you’re a troll
You’re masquerading as knowledgeable. Plate scanners have been motion triggered in the past, with text ocr scanning for plates, followed by manual review for confirmation. “AI” increases throughput and allows fast finding of more selective visual data automatically. Like this: https://lemmy.world/post/49325290?scrollToComments=true
Computer vision goes way past the old plate scanners. They are using pkate scanners for what you say they aren’t, with the technology you say they aren’t using.
Did you actually read what I said, and see what you wanted, or are you a shill?
Sex workers are not traditional?
Please, > 20 years ago, aurora colorado, built a license plate tracking system they installed in most light controlled intersections. Specifically with the intention of tracking every vehicle within city limits. There is no paranoia there, all these jurisdictions say this shit out loud, and have for decades. All the police marketers trumpet they’ll be able to track people with facial recognition, out loud, and for years. Efficacy aside, they’re drooling over it. Out loud, in marketing materials, statehouses, and newspapers for years upon years.
I was an adventurer too, until I took an arrow to the knee.
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