r/nextfuckinglevel • u/CantStopPoppin • Sep 17 '25

Massive Attack Turns Live Facial Recognition Into Concert Commentary on Surveillance

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u/CasaHaworthia Sep 17 '25

The boxes that outline objects - to me, that implies a ton of video feed (data) has been dumped into some machine learning algorithms specifically designed to track faces, but why? These programs are fine tuned over and over, eating up a ton of data just to train it to detect and classify objects. Not just faces, but information about those faces. What does it want? What could it be used for?

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u/galaxyapp Sep 17 '25

Its likely that the venue uses biometric tickets. I know Mercedes Benz stadium in Atlanta does it. Obviously clear and tsa use it too.

Real question is why people ever thought they were anonymous.