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zitterbewegung·

I keep on wondering if the Social Credit system is just for parallel reconstruction of events or not (or maybe both).

Also, people have tweeted at the technology in action.

https://twitter.com/rob_schmitz/status/981334160924082177

https://twitter.com/rob_schmitz/status/981425263987843072

is a good demo of what they appear to be doing

For the first one they are doing object classification & identification in realtime.

The second one is identifying crowds using a heatmap.

I don't mean to play it down, but honestly classifying objects and identifying crowds don't seem like super valuable outcomes from such a huge investment. I guess I expected something like "persistently label and narrow down the definition of an object over the span of multiple occasions" or "identify the intent or demeanor of a crowd".

They are using this to routinely pull wanted criminals out of crowds using facial recognition. Seems valuable especially to somewhere like China that likes to grab particular people.

Do you realize if you did this at scale how much faster you could look through recordings ? And that this is a manual process currently? Also, they are just starting out .

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