Massive Attack used live facial recognition technology on concertgoers, turning surveillance into provocative art that sparked debate about privacy.
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If you live in a city (not only) anywhere, you are on at least 5-10 security cams when you leave your home on the way to work or the store, more counting those in your workplace and the store. Unknown how much are with face recognition soft. Think of it, you are tagget.
Worst knowing that a lot of live cams are even with public access and even streaming on YouTube.
It wasn’t live. They use the same footage at every concert.
Good. People don’t understand implications until it happens to them. Suddenly they don’t like this security features anymore because it became personal.
We need more people to experience that discomfort
Nice, face recognition surveillance for sure is because to protect our childrens.
It’s crazy that suicide among youth has gone up in the past 20 years. Whatever they’re doing to “protect the children” they need to stop.
Who the hell can afford children ?
Some people on islands can afford many
Was this an attack or just some artistic BS? The article is unclear. Mostly because the article wasn’t written by a person.
I definitely parsed the headline wrong at first! But c’mon, even if you’ve never heard of the band, the second sentence of the article links to their webpage…
I’ll gladly introduce you to Massive Attack because it seems you never heard of these Trip Hop legends from Bristol.
https://youtu.be/u7K72X4eo_s
Massive Attack is the name of the band. The article was not ambiguous about that
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Pretty cool… But anyone else get major AI vibes from the way this article is written?
Why even become a journalist anymore if you’re just going to be putting prompts into a black box and copy/pasting the output?
But that’s what capitalism is all about! Efficiency.
Now one journal-ist can produce hundreds of art-ickles per hour!
/s
This article gives me vibes that someone wrote a few lines outlining the situation and asked the AI to write the article itself. Interestingly though, I think most people would just rather read the outline, less time wasted and less llm.
A part that screams AI would be:
“This isn’t this–it’s that” is an extremely common AI sentence structure, further exposed by the fact that the part before the em-dash doesn’t even make sense to begin with. No one was asking themselves whether it was part of subtle venue security.
As a sidenote, sometimes I read sentences like this and I wonder “could this ever even have been written by a human?” I think that there’s a very low chance that this article didn’t have at least some amount of AI involved, but I know that somewhere out there there must be some people who actually write like this. And that’s kind of sad.
tbh I don’t even know why I even wrote this, the entire article appears to be one big example of generic AI writing
“The Consent Question Nobody Asked”
Yeah, that tastes like AI this turn of phrase
People getting mad at massive attack are missing the point completely
Massive Attack = Banksy. You heard it from me first. Or maybe you didn’t and you knew it already all along.
Same software was used in the Netherlands on Appelpop.
https://x.com/IpswichPolice/status/1892910824517177743
I do trust Massiva Attack more than this violent gang of thugs
The public were just nice to them while they were being evaluated for termination…
What is wrong with the populace of ipswitch ? Are they all cattle already ?
The only people offended by this are the ones who dont yet understand that this is happening constantly all over the place without your consent already.
The only people offended by this are those who have something to hide!
/s
It’s a great way to showcase that these things are in use and will be in use in places with bad privacy laws (and by those that ignore such laws). Most people don’t want to think that this happens on a daily basis, it’s logical for them when you tell them, but they’re busy with their lives and they don’t actually see it being done with their own eyes.
Now tell them how this data is connected to your ticket and your face/video being analyzed after the fact, which is then sold off to become what is basically an quantification of you as a person to judge you and determine what your addictions, views and flaws are, in order to expoit it to make you as miserable as possible. And people won’t really believe it since it’s uncomfortable to believe in. Showing someone’s face makes it more believable and difficult to ignore.
Which would be most people?
Yes, the ignorants, which is exactly why we have artists, it’s basically their most important jerb
Nah, not anymore. These tools are starting to be used by police without any remorse, so an ever increasing amount of people are aware. Its being used against immigrants, journalists, activists, etc. so the normie and privacy nerd worlds are starting to overlap.
But don’t the people who get caught, disappear in the gullet of the prison slavery system and never heard from again ? And if allowed the walk the streets again, they know talking about it puts a target on their back and the police will come smash the cardboard box they’re sleeping in at night. And that’s until they start with the involuntary lethals injections for those who “refuse ressources” as Fox & Friends put it
So instead of like 1 or 2% it’s now like 5%. Still not a majority
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Something happening all the time doesn’t mean that it’s good and you should just accept it.
No of course not. But in order to be able to not accept it, you have to know about it in the first place. Thats what this is perfect for. No harm done, lots of eyes opened.
That was one god awful website. Holy shit. Why would anybody willingly visit that site. Wtf
It’s ok-ish?
I got a video that started playing which only had an arrow to expand but no x to close. It kept following while scrolling.
Not sure why my ad blocker didn’t block it.
Edit: after staying on the page for about a minute it just auto showed up
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It takes a (short while to show ). I also have uBlock origin in my phone ( with fennec ) and it did show for me for some reason
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Oh hang on. My ad blocker was disabled. I turned it off to test something because my browser kept hanging when surfing the web on my phone.
It is related to ublock origin for some reason. Because the moment I turn it off I can browse like normal.
Case solved why I’m getting it :)
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It’s time to switch to IronFox
I was on fennec, but I’ll have a look! :)
Ah, i have it set to block 3rd party frames (anywhere, since almost only ad stuff uses this) and 3rd-party scripts (on mobile, breaks some things), probably that’s why.
To review gadgets ofc…
OH!
funny enough my thesis involves orwellian spying, palantir type of shit
Now consider this to coldplay concert where they urged the crowd to send love to Charlie Kirk’s family lol.
It’s okay, if Coldplay is a honeypot to lure execs onto camera to self-own
Good. A little bit of shock treatment is just what the doctor ordered.