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Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras (youtu.be)
submitted 1 week ago by Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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If you live in the United States, it's very likely that a private startup has been logging and sharing your vehicle's location without your consent. In this ...

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In many states, you're technically not able to alter the license plate or put stickers on it. But cameras don't know how big things are supposed to be. So put a frame around your license plate with all sorts of crazy.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In some states an obscured/unreadable license plate is all a cop needs to pull you over…

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are covers that mess up photography but still work for viewing normally with your eyes.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and they’re probably highly illegal pretty much everywhere because they stop speed and red light cameras working and that’s exactly their marketed purposes

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The cameras should work fine, they would just require manual review.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

for the tricks that mess up AI, yes

but i believe this comment was talking about things like IR blocking covers and such

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Surely stoplight cameras take visible light pictures and only use IR for automated plate reading.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

there are lots of different covers for license plates which block photography only, and allow humans to see the plate. i’m not sure how all of them work

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

A little dirt mixed into a clear paint. To a cop, it just looks like a dirty licence plate. To AI powered cameras it looks like T̶̗̈ℲM-ԀC̴̦͝)0