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I find it alarming that to "protect" women, men have to be surveilled secretly in all public places. This is way beyond dystopian.

AI and remote security personnel get to decide if someone is "a predator" and take 'em down preemptively if they look suspicious.

What could possibly go wrong?

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 minutes ago

If unusual behaviours are detected, for example a large group of people moves suddenly or in an unexpected way, security teams on the ground are alerted and can check if there is a problem.

Yes this will definitely be used only for its intended purpose

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 22 points 5 hours ago

This article is using every trick in the dystopian playbook to try to emotionally appeal to people. Protecting women, especially the young girls!

"I think we have to develop solutions that put the responsibility back into other places like public authorities, owners of spaces, police forces," she says.

But she still comes out and says what she really wants: more power vested into private, wealthy owners of spaces, to the state, and to the police.

Surely nothing can go wrong. Surely this is about equality for everyone and it definitely won't disproportionately impact men of color. Surely this won't run afoul of any tricky edge cases like trans people. Surely this won't be used to deliscriminate against the poors while still allowing anyone in an expensive suit to do whatever the fuck they want.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 23 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The UK is a dystopian shithole. They took 1984 and used it as an instruction manual.

[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI

If students have to use AI in order to make it look like they're not using AI — what on earth will a system like this do to people? Quite how it will be able to read the intent of people's actions without throwing up a huge number of false-positives is something that I don't understand.

And quite what workers are supposed to do when they receive an 'alert' of this nature, I'm not sure. Go up to the individual and tell them that their behaviour has been flagged as suspicious? Way to make me feel more anxious in public.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

No, it already does. Facial-ID stuff already throws hundreds of false positives.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 21 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

We're talking the same AI systems that protect children from lethal bags of chips, and the same kind of premise that lead to vulnerable women getting their info stolen?

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

Wow, the Baltimore one I didn't know about and that's also beyond dystopian. Jeez, the response by authorities being "sorry, but it did the right thing, move along" reminds me of the movie "Brazil". If you read the article, you already know that yes, it's like that one, but in England, and every public place. Worse though, because it's judgment of where you stand, sit, walk or cast your eyes in relation to any woman in the area.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Why not sell it as a big laser quest game? #YesAllMen /jk

Women are slightly more than half the population (51%?) and experience the most harrassment. I think something needs to be done but maybe not a dystopian measure. How about a shared register of dangerous men made by competent devs (not outsourced) that don't leave the s3 bucket open to the intetnet unencrypted? Or - given that the police are useless - make the process of getting a restraining order more straight forward, require less evidence.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

At one time, we were promised that having cameras in our faces wherever we go would make things safer. “This invasion of your privacy will make you safer.”

That’s clearly not been enough to completely stop this so now we need to take it one step further and use lasers.

That will be the end all, be all to put a stop to this.

But if and when it isn’t, it’ll just lead to the next victim feeling we didn’t go far enough.

Next is going to be requiring every citizen have a drone fly behind them and follow them wherever they go and they pay for this invasion of their privacy. The laser thing just wasn’t cutting it. Someone got assaulted and the people who were supposed to help her didn’t show up. But now having drones follow you and monitor your every movement is going to stop it once and for all. Of course it won’t follow you into your bathroom because that would be taking it too far…

…until someone gets assaulted in a bathroom, then we’ll move to now violating your privacy there as well and that will be the end to all of these evil people being evil, once and for all. We promise. That’ll be the last time we violate your privacy and the evil people will stop being evil for sure 👍

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

We'll do anything but force men to take accountability for their actions and to change our culture.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You're missing the point, it's mass population control. Over here in maga states we have women fearing period tracking apps coz abortion. Even Facebook will sell info on women to data buyers to track them.

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

Ah, of course, that's the fascist strategy these days.