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.
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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.
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- 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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The insanity! I attempted to treat the full magnitude of the Sesame Credit system in my contribution "Welcome to the Machine" about a week ago with an eye to its expansion into the west. @soo.chong163's comments there are very good. That contribution goes well with @metalmag's treatment of an episode of Black Mirror that looks at this concept of policing the public via social media, worth reading!
Thanks, yeah Black Mirror s03e01 is one I wanted to post about too ;) I covered a similar episode from The Orville
Yup. Control is the game. Always trying to control people and make them do what you want or prevent them to do things you don't want :/
More critical thinking is needed. More self-sufficient food growing and energy production too.
Fear is the mind killer. Ease and comfort are the carrot sticks to slavery... :/
Thanks for the feedback :)
We are getting further away from nature every day. No wonder so many people suffer from depression nowadays.
I don't call this shit "progress" anymore.
The government is doing whatever it can to gain more and more control to get more power over us.
We have become complete slaves. Most people are unable to use their brain and they work 9-5 for someone else and then lie "I love my job" even tho they damn well hate it.
"I love what I do there" yeah sure you do, but still someone else decides when you have to wake up, how much you earn, when you can take a vacation and more.
Every day I see people working 2 jobs and then getting home and then go to sleep and at the weekend they get drunk or watch netflix and that is basically their life.
They will die with hard regrets. I am not gonna be a part of that shit.
-New Age Barbarian
Jack Donavan is man's man. I remember reading his essay "Violence is Golden" and it hit home like nothing else I've read in the last 15 or 20 years. He's a damn philosophical ninja...
You should read "A sky with no eagles", I did read that book in 1 day.
Yes, billions of slaves doing this every single day. I'm out of this system now :-)
Systemic cyclical living: going round a hamster wheel, living in circles. That's the system of life we have :/
Very interesting read, thanks @krnel.
Btw.: To say that this is not socialism is the same as saying that in western countries we don't have democracy. Which is only half-true, as there never was democracy, socialism or communism, but only different faces of greed for power & control.
I've spent a lot of time in former soviet-block countries, and I have to say that the 'communism' left a lot of socialism (meaning an awareness for others and their needs) deep in the people and culture.
Yeah, political socialism creeps in everywhere, It's true face is total control :/
I live in Shenzhen and jaywalk as much as possible; would love to see my "laowai" (evil foreigner) face on one of these billboards just to take an amusing snapshot of it (to remind me of its ridiculousness).
Honestly, I wish they'd use these systems for the people who throw rubbish on the ground (an extremely common site) and those God damn electric bikes that run red lights 100% of the time; those I would be all for with this kind of shaming system!
P.S.: You can't imagine all the other dystopian shit going on here...
Tell us more about what is going on, I am very interested in knowing. And you needn't worry, the Sesame Credit system is going to use the ubiquitous CCTV cams to police everything - at least, that is the specifically stated goal. Littering? Downvote. Run a red light? Downvote. Disagree with a politician? Downvote. Too many downvotes? No good school for your kids, no mortgage to buy a home, no visa to travel abroad etc. If you haven't heard of this, you can start with my post that discusses it here.
Hi @cupidzero, I am writing a book on my 10 years in China (as a foreigner). There will be plenty in there and I intend to post a lot of it here on Steemit from it. There's good, bad, ugly here. All of it. China is a country you love and hate all at once. As for the CCP, they are a mere speck in the wind of this 5,000 year old civilization; for the moment, I will let that statement speak for itself. If you want to know the pinnacle of Chinese civilization, study the Tang. Han was up there. Although from 1,000+ years ago, they were much more advanced then in so many ways and in so much wisdom.
with this new technology, people have to be very careful not to be fined ... until this moment everything is going very well ... the bad part of the case is that it should give pity to people that their face appears on a screen and make fun of them. because they committed an infraction ... they are committing a crime with this system ... that is called moral damage.
The worst is they can get their train/plane travel privileges revoked; disgusting to say the least.
Before I arrived in Shenzhen in 2008, they use to publicly shame prostitutes on major street corners (even though the majority of their clients were politicians...).
In my previous employer's workplace (that even has a lot of foreigners), the upper management sent emails encouraging ratting on employees who were not in line.
The Mao era of public shaming is making an ugly comeback folks...
that's terrible..
Sure is...
BTW, I very much like your posts (especially Recognition, the key to dignity and self-esteem) so am following you now.
thank you I'm glad you liked friend.
Indeed, infraction is not a crime, but criminalizing people for such is a crime. Well said ;)
The encroachment of totalitarianism is getting closer and closer. This reminds me of the post @metalmag25 made yesterday.
https://steemit.com/informationwar/@metalmag25/how-watching-black-mirror-helped-me-understand-steemit-and-the-not-so-crazy-future-of-social-media
If the people in EVERY country in the world do not rise up in unison, we are going to enter a very very dark period of human history.
Big Brother reaches us all. Despite being socialism or communism or whateverism, governments spy on their citizens, the question is: citizens should be aware of it or not? Great theme on your post.
Yes, we should be aware of it. But most rely on mainstream news... and they don't talk about it enough I guess...
I've been wondering this for a while now. When will fashion catch up to fascism? I impatiently await that day that wearing face-paint and using other techniques of obscuring our appearance will be commonplace because of BS like this.
I was much more impressed with Brave New World over 1984, Hunger Games, and Divergent.
It's a more accurate comparison to the real world. Those other ones are much more violent and/or action packed and sensationalist.
Have you read it? It's not as exciting, but it's much more eerily believable.
I like Brave New World, forgot to mention it :)
This is a very intersting news.Technology and psychology are being used to prevent crime. I think this is a cool idea.
It doesn't prevent crime, it only monetizes words and/or actions. I can't think of a single law on the
books that has prevented crime. Law is intellectual property of other people and when it is in written form it becomes a monetized racket for those in one group to profit off of non-existent claims.
A true crime causes harm and/or loss, or fraud
It's an invasion of privacy and it causes more harm than good. The ends don't justify the means.
A really big and modern camera made a good choice my friend
Well done
Innovation
You write fantastic articles! Earned a new subscriber :)
Wow this is great
Fuck that shit!!!! Seriously??!