This is getting out of hand.
…can yards and house fronts for code violations: overgrown grass, illegal dumping, peeling paint…
I’m sure nobody’s going to get outrageous fines due to an AI’s false positives.
That’s the announcement. It isn’t the story.
AI writing detected in an article about the evils of AI. It’s like rain on your wedding day.
What if I dont have a garbage truck?
Straight to jail!
Well your neighbors might
this article sounds like AI too, i am going crazy
How’s it going America?
Oh…
The Land of Free* *Terms and conditions apply.
The only condition: don’t be poor
Not an actual product
For illustration purposes only
Actually Propaganda
For illusory purposes only
scan, or act as mass surveillance as people become aware of flock cameras.
I guess they won’t be satisfied until we are all wearing mechanical suits that will prevent us from doing anything “illegal!”
or have cameras in your own house monitoring your every move. like that dropout/collegehumor skit, where republicans have cameras in every move to monitor as a “thought” police.
I feel like we might as well just shoot right to the 1984 reference
Or just electro shock collars
You guys get shock collars? We get the kind that explodes your head.
The only way to stop or reverse this is to get conservative capitalists out of our government.
I mean aside from literal bloody revolution, which some people say is the only way. And, as much as this may be true, it will take a lot more than what has been happening so far to incite that sort of action, so the next actionable step is to vote for and support socialists to push back against the filthy rich and their corrupt cronies that infest our government at every level.
If you think the left doesn’t do this too I’ve got news for you.
The only way to stop or reverse this is to get conservative capitalists out of our government.
So basically everyone including the Democratic Socialist Mayor of Seattle.
…so the next actionable step is to vote for and support socialists…
On the east Coast the formerly fiery Mamdani has gone silent on this issue since becoming Mayor.
I can find examples of this kind of thing from all over the United States. I’m using Mayors Wilson and Mamdani because they directly refute the idea that “Socialists” will stop this. They clearly will not.
Of all places, the fucked up red run Florida Oblast. I thought the MAGA nutters were all about “freedom.”
It’s not for them, it’s for their neighbors.
Freedom (like free market, etc) means the freedom for corps to do whatever they want. The exact opposite of what Adam Smith meant.
Classic Murica: redefine a specific term and claim it’s in line with the original definition. If you can’t beat the facts, play with the terms behind those facts. Win!
Freedom in the US means the right to ride your Harley Davidson fart noise machine wherever you want.
Freedom until they are in charge.
So that they can get pictures of license plates tied to addresses to sell to repo companies so that the tow truck can come get your Hellcat.
Obviously the reader should confirm this for their own jurisdiction but there is no law against either removing or covering up your car’s plate(s) as long as you’re parked on your own private property. Just gotta remember to uncover them before you head out because that is illegal.
Car covers are also an alternative if you’re a renter assuming you aren’t required to have a parking pass or plates visible for parking enforcement.
Anyone wanna build smart licence plate covers? Like it either rolls up or flips up to hide the plate.
Maybe actually have it just flip down your plate when parked to obscure it. I would say power tinting to obscure it but technically its illegal to cover it most places.
“Smart” in this context wasn’t as much of a thing back then, but The Transporter had a similar option.
I would ensure it’s impossible to activate it from inside the car. Otherwise, eventually someone might worry about you cheating toll booths.
(…actually sounds like in Texas they’re just banned outright?)
Interesting but I just meant flipping down not completely making it look like no plate. I would say tie it to the ignition/power button so when off it flips down or up depending on what is less obvious. Like some cars have a bump above the plate that would be less obvious going up meanwhile trucks have ledges or tow hitch that would make it less obvious flipping down.
there is no law against either removing or covering up your car’s plate(s) as long as you’re parked on your own private property.
Not inherently true- most places ban having “unregistered” vehicles on residential areas, and if they can’t see a plate when they’re looking to cause problems, they’re going to claim it’s unregistered and make it your problem.
The idea of putting Cameras on City Vehicles and using AI to find problems, including Code Enforcement issues, is a good one IMO. The problem, as the article notes, is what that data is going to be used for in the future. We used to call this a Slippery Slope argument but the past 10 years have proven that if data is harvested that it will eventually be misused; it’s some kind of parallel to Godwin’s Law that I am going to coin as “Flock’s Law”.
In this specific instance Flock’s Law tells us that the authorities will inevitably start scanning the photos / videos for people in order to track movements, the Police will be in the database stalking people, and you’ll start getting tickets for over-filling your trash can.
Meanwhile all people really want, and what won’t happen, is someone to come by to get that absolutely jungle of a lawn mowed, fix a broken sidewalk, replace a missing street sign, or move the damn boat / camper / trailer / junk car that has been parked in the street for the last year.
[Flock] run what it calls convoy analysis to flag vehicles that keep turning up near each other.
There’s an interesting article written back when it was revealed that the post office was recording the envelopes of every piece of mail it handles and what kind of data they could extrapolate from it. [If you’ve mailed a letter at the counter in the past few years, you’ll know that they bug you if you haven’t put a return address on the envelope.] Anyway, it’s called “Finding Paul Revere” and I found it an interesting read.
I don’t have a garbage truck. I let the city handle that.
Welfare slob huh? Stop relying on my tax dollars and get your own damn garbage truck already!
You don’t have to pay for trash collection service in your city?
Cape Coral is turning into one giant HOA?
be nice if someone sued kws for the same shit. there is no real reason they need your name, address,ph no, and ss# just to watch risque videos or play mature-rated games online
