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South Africa uses AI and CCTVs to identify and track people, GM explores AI program that gives feedback to human drivers, actors unions campaign against unregulated use of generated content

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South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid

South African surveillance company Vumacam has set up 6600 CCTV cameras and uses AI software to monitor these video feeds for security alerts. The software is trained on roughly 100 hours of footage that classifies “normal” behavior, and it flags anything deemed out of the…