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by jetanoia 1836 days ago
Reminds me in a way of paparazzi and so I wonder, when will ‘automated paparazzi’ become a thing, and when will it be considered to have gone too far?

Certainly too creepy for the public to allow (or even imagine) today but perhaps in 5 or 10 years the masses may be sufficiently conditioned to consider the privacy tradeoff worth whatever conveniences (or ‘security’ benefits) it dishes up for them.

Marketed as ‘public view’ imagine Boston Dynamics or drones with more ai, solar powered, operating at amazon or google scale. Maybe they’ll even dress them up like birds and other wildlife to give it an ‘organic’ or natural feel. Fun times.