[ben_w]

Perhaps. But CCTV cameras and smartphones are huge sources of raw content of the real world.

Unless you want to take the argument of Morpheus in The Marix and ask "what is real?"

[croes]

So let’s crank up total surveillance for better auto descriptions of a picture.

We aren’t exchanging freedom for security anymore, what could be reasonable under certain conditions, we just get convenience. Bad deal.

[ben_w]

That's one way to do it, but overkill for this specific thing — self-driving cars or robotics, or natural use of smart-[phone|watch|glass|doorbell|fridge], likely sufficient.

Total surveillance may be necessary for other reasons, like making sure organised crime can't blackmail anyone because the state already knows it all, but it's overkill for AI.