Documentarian @remixmanifesto continues his run of outstanding short documentaries on the perils of the Internet of Things for @CBC. Last week, it was his short film on climate change and machine learning.
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Now he's back with a smart, riveting 8 minutes on how smart doorbells and predictive policing reinforces gentrification, basically creating a mesh of fully automated karens that call the cops on anyone who "looks wrong."
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Gaylor tells his story on LA's Skid Row, a no-man's-land where, for decades, homeless people were herded into and left alone with little support -- but also with little official attempts to remove them.
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Today, as #DTLA surges, the interface where Skid Row rubs up against expensive condos has become a highly automated, fully surveilled battlefield. It's a place where algorithms tell cops to go to "find crime" (by definition, cops find crime where they look for it).
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And it's a place where machine learning, facial recognition and networked sensors form a virtual chase-team that harries some of the worst-off people on the continent.
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