Raw LLM Responses

There's a lot of valid concerns about what's being done with this data in these comments, but I want to talk about the actual technology. I teach a high school class on robotics, and we track objects with cameras as a part of that, and I took an AI class this summer in which we trained neural networks to identify things from a large dataset. I have an OAK-1 camera, and several Raspberry Pi camera modules, and we are working on training them to identify our principals when they walk down the hall to sound an alarm to "Look busy! Your boss is coming!" I would also like to get them to take attendance for me. None of this is particularly expensive or difficult, even at the high school level. Now, what are those cameras doing that a human couldn't do with their own eyeballs? Absolutely nothing. What are those cameras doing that is nefarious? Nothing. Could we do nefarious things with that data? Sure, but it's not the facial recognition technology that's bad. We have facial recognition built right into our own bodies, in the form of eyeballs and brains, and nobody is complaining about that. If this vending machine was replaced with a concession stand, it would also have facial recognition, and could easily have data collection. The person working the stand could write down everything that a camera with facial recognition could record. "The same guy comes in every day and buys a Snickers Bar, and he's about 45 years old. I would recognize him again in another location." It's not the technology that's a problem, but rather what we do with it. Nobody has a problem with speed limits, but boy do we have a problem with accurately enforcing it with technology.