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I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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iudqnolq wrote: post #245
manholio wrote: post #208

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The body cam footage is a good example, it's deeply hated by the police and a frequent source of incriminatory evidence against the wearer. Since "you got nothing to hide", as the old saying goes, why not bodycam yourself and offer the authorities a great source of evidence they can use against yourself?

Bodycams are actually an example of a reform successfully cooped by police bureaucracy. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/16/police-pr-video-machi...

The American Jurors have convicted people based on a man's interpretation of a dog signalling that a dead body was on someone's property 5 years ago. Once people are that gulliable, they are beyond help.

https://www.science.org/content/article/should-dog-s-sniff-b...

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roberdam wrote: post #233
cbsks wrote: post #216

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Super cool project! How do you carry the microphones on your person? The big one looks like it wouldn’t clip to a shirt very easily. Does it pick up your voice from your pocket?

thanks!, I try it on my shirt pocket but now I have it hanging from my neck with a badge rope as close to the mouth as I can

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cameronh90 wrote: post #243

All of the rooms/corridors in my house except my bathrooms are covered by cameras. My initial motivation for installing them was to keep an eye on what my pets were doing when I'm not around, but I find in recent years that if I misplace something, I end up tracing back my history on the cameras and finding where I left it. It seems obvious that at some point, AI will be able to do that for me and I'll just be able t…

I agree that it is an obvious extension for AI to use this data at scale to help users. It also is obviously a huge temptation to abuse it for other purposes.

Wasting a few minutes in the morning to find my glasses is a small price to pay to not be watched and analyzed all the time. Let's not build our own panopticons.

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cameronh90 wrote: post #243

All of the rooms/corridors in my house except my bathrooms are covered by cameras. My initial motivation for installing them was to keep an eye on what my pets were doing when I'm not around, but I find in recent years that if I misplace something, I end up tracing back my history on the cameras and finding where I left it. It seems obvious that at some point, AI will be able to do that for me and I'll just be able t…

I would 100% prefer to lose my keys rather than letting Amazon or Google in.

FYI: I have zero Alexa/Siri enabled device, zero automated home device, a degoogled phone, etc etc. So we might have different perspectives on the matter.

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Post by oliwary »

mwigdahl wrote: post #226
yannyu wrote: post #165

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Ted Chiang explores this idea in a short story called "The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling" ( https://devonzuegel.com/post/the-truth-of-fact-the-truth-of-... ), which takes place in a world where commercial, individual, always-on recording exists. Ted Chiang also wrote the short story that the movie Arrival was based on.

Halperin's debut novel _The Truth Machine_ also has people living "documented lives", with always-on video and audio recording, as a primary plot element.

As does the Neanderthal parallax by Robert J. Sawyer [0]. It describes an advanced civilization of Neanderthals who have taken completely different societal choices. IIRC, each neanderthal has a recording device that constantly films and uploads a 3D feed of their surroundings. In case of murder, the court can access this recording to determine find the killer.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264946.Hominids

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cameronh90 wrote: post #243

All of the rooms/corridors in my house except my bathrooms are covered by cameras. My initial motivation for installing them was to keep an eye on what my pets were doing when I'm not around, but I find in recent years that if I misplace something, I end up tracing back my history on the cameras and finding where I left it. It seems obvious that at some point, AI will be able to do that for me and I'll just be able t…

Just having a front door cam paid off immensely this year when I was able to prove that I had left the house with an item (that I later misplaced, and was able to recover with that knowledge.)

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Post by artificialLimbs »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #251
iudqnolq wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bodycams are actually an example of a reform successfully cooped by police bureaucracy. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/16/police-pr-video-machi...

The American Jurors have convicted people based on a man's interpretation of a dog signalling that a dead body was on someone's property 5 years ago. Once people are that gulliable, they are beyond help. https://www.science.org/content/article/should-dog-s-sniff-b...

"A jury of your peers consists of 12 people who were not smart enough to get out of jury duty."

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Post by narag »

roberdam wrote: post #147

Since everyone is interested in the hardware: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803349510543.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803085687061.html the particular choice was for the battery and the other for the size, both are generic and come with the same software and bios, several vendors, if I could buy something better I would look for one that can have a lavalier microphone

Thank you for the links and for the article. How long can record the smaller one? Actually if it can record for a day, it'd be enough for me.

I used to record all phone calls, until EU made Xiaomi remove the feature. It was very useful because I always could take notes later if they sent me a number, contact name or appointment hour.

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