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Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment

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Post by const_cast »

bongodongobob wrote: post #110
antonvs wrote: post #104

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They’re pointing out that we’re having this discussion on a site funded by a company that also funds a company that makes software to monitor factory worker performance, because it might make some money. Quasi-fascist leanings here shouldn’t be too much of a surprise.

Yeah, I mean obviously discourse is worthless unless it's GNU self hosted in an air gapped Faraday cage fed by sneakernet.

There's a huge planet-sized gap between techno-fascism dystopia and being Richard stallman.

If you want to actively make the world a worse place for everyone be my guest. But naturally, people are probably not gonna like you. People might point to you as an example of what's wrong with humanity.

That's a something you have to live with.

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Post by jameslk »

tempodox wrote: post #126
jameslk wrote: post #98

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Anyone who’s seen The Matrix has been exposed to Massive Attack in one of the most famous scenes from the movie: https://youtu.be/6IDT3MpSCKI In fact, I recall many songs from The Matrix being played nonstop back in my teenage gamer IRC days. Maybe even by others than just me

My Massive Attack is a bit rusty. What song is that?

Dissolved Girl from the album Mezzanine, though as another commenter mentioned elsewhere, a different version of the track is used in the film

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Post by pixxel »

piva00 wrote: post #159
ehnto wrote: post #149

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Strengthening of your right to privacy against an entirely new paradigm of state and individual surveillance. It is a new world. I actually don't find it hard to sacrifice the recreational photography of strangers, but I do have a hard time balancing it with the need to photograph crime and government entities overstepping their authorities. I don't have a good answer for it all.

> I actually don't find it hard to sacrifice the recreational photography of strangers, but I do have a hard time balancing it with the need to photograph crime and government entities overstepping their authorities. We would not only lose an art form but also the recording of the past, a candid photo of today has a lot more value in 50-100 years, rather absurd to lose this. It wouldn't even guarantee anything, bad a…

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Post by sschueller »

ninalanyon wrote: post #157
anal_reactor wrote: post #144

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Eh. These laws exist in DACH area but the result is that when someone's committing a crime, you can't film them in order to create evidence, because that would breach their right to privacy. Someone stole shit from your front porch? Someone broke into your car? Someone pulled an insurance scam on you? Well, tough luck, it's illegal for you to provide film evidence. In more sensible countries the law says that it's le…

> Someone pulled an insurance scam on you? Well, tough luck, it's illegal for you to provide film evidence. Are you looking at this from a US perspective where illegally obtained evidence is not admissible in court (fruit of the poisoned tree)? At least in Norway this is not the case, nor is it absolutely forbidden in the UK. See, for instance, https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-and-opinion/fruit-fr...

Same in Switzerland, evidence is evidence even if optained illegally.

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Post by permo-w »

jonplackett wrote: post #121
permo-w wrote: post #57

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the reason LLMs use that jovial, overly friendly tone is because it's so common in journalism and marketing. this article does smell of ChatGPT, but there's absolutely no way to know for sure. people using LLMs annoy me just as much as people who are so certain that they can tell the difference a smart person can make ChatGPT sounds completely authentic, and a very boring and middle of the road writer who uses em-das…

In that case, I hope this comment finds you well.

did you write this with ChatGPT?
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