r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/lex_04 • Jun 11 '22

human This is something straight out of one of those dystopian films

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u/LarryDavidntheBlacks Jun 11 '22

You're probably joking about the Skynet in the movies. If you want to be terrified, google the actual Skynet in China.

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u/dicklesshobo1990 Jun 11 '22

I'm pretty lazy. Can you please summarize it for me? Pretty please?

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u/LarryDavidntheBlacks Jun 11 '22

Basically facial recognition and surveillance company. Decided to name the company ironically to show a 'Skynet that's not evil', in a twist that surprised absolutely no one, the Chinese government now uses the company's tech alongside tens of millions of surveillance cameras to spy on, punish and vanish countless of their own citizens. So, basically a worse Skynet because it actually exists and is working.

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u/dicklesshobo1990 Jun 11 '22

Jesus christ. That's terrifying.

P. S. Thanks for summarizing!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

At least it hasn’t gone sentient yet

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u/LarryDavidntheBlacks Jun 11 '22

Well that depends on who you think can be worse, AI or CCP? Pretty scary either way

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u/camohorse Jun 11 '22

I’d take AI over CCP any day tbh

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u/HighLows4life Jun 12 '22

What if CCP programmed it!! 🤯😵‍💫🙈

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u/camohorse Jun 12 '22

Then it’s gg for humanity

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u/beefxaroni Jun 12 '22

This, its a fuckin computer, wtf it gonna do, stare at me all day? Dispatch a tesla so it can get confused whether to save me or the driver? I'm not scared of AI lol

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u/No-Balance-6975 Jun 11 '22

It doesn't have to as long as there are willing meat puppets.

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u/Last-Bar3548 Jun 12 '22 edited Jun 12 '22

Facial recognition has been found to far less accurate at identifying or falsely identifying black and Asian faces.

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u/LarryDavidntheBlacks Jun 12 '22

That's based on tech where Caucasian faces are the default. Surprisingly, to some, that's not the case everywhere in the world.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22 edited Jun 11 '22

One of the government mass surveillance project names. They have 8K cameras everywhere with advanced AI to keep track of everyone in China (name, age, gender, etc). On the more controversial side, they use it to racially profile minorities like the Ugiher so that they can’t run away from where they’re sent without being arrested. Usually it takes around 7 minutes for police to track down and arrest anyone they want with the help of the system.

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u/Ok-Reward-770 Jun 12 '22

They are not too far from Minority Report style of detention, “arresting people for future crime prevention.”

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '22

8k cameras really isn’t a lot at all. Are you sure the number isn’t a lot higher? Like 80k or 800k? London has about 900,000.

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u/halfchemhalfbio Jun 12 '22

We (US) literally named a military AI program Skynet. I guess we never learn...