The Chinese government is reportedly taking advantage of this8 with its nationwide surveillance system. Experts agree that there’s no facial recognition system that could accurately identify the thirty million people China has on its watch lists. In 2018 the New York Times reported that the government was still doing much of its facial recognition the old-fashioned way, using humans to look through sets of photos and make matches. What they tell the public, however, is that they’re using advanced AI. They’d like people to believe that a nationwide surveillance system is already capable of
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