China is revving up its dystopian control-grid and deploying another part of their social credit system. In addition to potentially being blacklisted for non-conformity to various laws, rules and social norms in China, getting added to the governments 'shit-list' is being made easier through artificial intelligence and facial recognition.
The city of Shenzhen with over 12 million people is deploying AI facial recognition technology to automatically enforce road rules. Jaywalking violators will be sent an instant message as well as a fine for their jaywalking.
A company already has cameras set up sine February 2017, where images of people's jaywalking 'crime' are displayed on large LED monitors at intersections to shame them publicly. Their family names and part of their government ID is also displayed. This March, a webpage was created to display those photos, names and IDs.
Currently, only 10% of offenders can be identified with the AI recognition technology. Many people don't have their information registered with the traffic police, despite the law requiring everyone staying in Shenzhen for more than 30 days to register to do so. Some people come and go, and not everyone stays in the city or complies with the rule. More identity databases in China will merge soon, which will greatly increase the amount of people that can be identified in different regions.
The texting messages to inform violators hopes to reduce the need to publicly shame them on large LED displays. The new system with AI and facial recognition will be able to track repeat offended and know how many times they violated traffic rules. After a certain number of offenses, their social credit score will be negatively affected, which can lead to an inability to use public transportation, rent a car or even get a loan.
They want to use technology and psychology to prevent repeat offenses, and keep people in line through Orwellian control from the authorities. It seems to be working for jaywalking, as people don't want to be shamed more. Smart glasses are already used by police in China to detect wanted criminals are train stations.
Some people think socialism is great. But this is what socialism is. Control for the alleged 'greater good'. Control everything in society to make a 'perfect' (bullshit) social 'order' according to the desires control-freaks.
For those who don't understand: read some history about attempts to create socialism in the 20th century, or watch fictional movies like the Divergent series, The Hunger Games, or Orwell's 1984, and you can see what 'perfect' 'order' centralized power-structures can make in an effort to control everyone and create their deluded vision of a 'utopia'. You get a dystopian nightmare of varying degrees.
References:
- Facial recognition technology can now text jaywalkers a fine
- Jaywalkers under surveillance in Shenzhen soon to be punished via text messages
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