Benn Jordan did exactly that

They're foreign citizens being hired by us police departments to spy on americans.

So the money isn't even coming back to us. The eyes on us could be anyone.

Oh, I was focused on the sweatshop part, ya know, de facto slave labor? I didn't think of it that way. Thanks for the different perspective.

It's also what HR has been doing for years when they made you attach your CV and THEN type in all the data separately when applying for a job.

That's correct. There is positive movement on this though, they're being seen as national security risks due to their laughable security. https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/11/17/ben-jordan-exposes-severe-security-vulnerabilities-in-flock-surveillance-cameras/

AI = Actually Indians

It's dudes in the Philippines this time, actually.

I mean, there is actual "AI" tech that exists, and isn't just people working in sweatshops, like this: https://deeplabcut.github.io/DeepLabCut/README.html

It's just kind of difficult to get consistency between trials, and reliability seems to boil down to completely eliminating variability. So kind of useless outside of a lab setting (as is).

I tend to feel like it's more trouble than it's worth and too unreliable (as is) to usually bother with it, but I know people who are just fellow lab rats (not broligarchs) and are super devoted to getting AI to work for their projects. Like most sectors in this country, even science is being forced to embrace AI. Regardless of if it actually makes sense for your line of work or not, the expectation is get it working or face the chopping block, and there are definitely people who are trying their hardest to really get this shit off the ground (because the alternative is be prepared to be out of a job for being obsolete).

This is also why it's kind of surprising to learn that even "AI" that's simply comparing license plates from one camera to the next, is actually just due to human slave labor.

So, do any of the broligarchs receiving these huge contracts actually believe that eventually they'll get AI to work once enough data and money is dumped into it and the little people at the bottom figure out all the kinks for them?

Or is it just that everybody at the top acknowledges this is a dead end, but once you're in the secret club at the top of the food chain, and you're making ridiculous amounts of money, your incentive is just to keep your mouth shut, keep making money, and fuck the consequences because once society collapses you'll get to be kings of your own little monarchs anyway?

If it is the second, and nobody at the top really believes AI is going anywhere, then what are all the giant, energy sucking data centers that are being built across the country actually for?

The people working in the sweat shops are generating training data for the AI, not producing results and calling them AI generated.

But it's especially infuriating that this company has received so many government contracts from ICE and all over the U.S., and in some cases literally just gone into towns and put cameras up without permission. Then refused to get around to taking them down in some cases, so towns just started covering them up with trash bags.

Its like an entire business model where some creepers with a cardboard box pretend lemonade stand just decided one day to start selling pretend AI instead. And we just let them? Who fucking signed off on this?

Who is it that even helped them get their foot in the door in the first place? Who was the coked out billionaire who apparently just fucking picked their name from a list he glanced at for 5 minutes on his way to rehab? Somebody needs to find that person, and we all need to be allowed to give him a swift public kick in the ass.

it looks like the AI bubble collapse is basically here.

FINALLY.

🌏👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 (currently since 2023)

The main thing flock is really supposed to do is capture and match pictures of license plates at different locations. It's not even complex.

So how tf did they get the green light for the first government contract if they never even had that capability?

It sounds like you're interpreting this as Flock using people to generate data that's passed off to customers as being AI generated.

That's not what's happening. They're using people to generate data to train the AI model.

It doesn't make it better because they're still using slave labor, but it's different than them passing off the work of humans as AI.

Let the unregulated "free" (for some!) market ruled by the winners decide.

The billionaires are the winners and the deciders that our wonderful free market system has given us.

/s

Many states have made these illegal. I got pulled over for one of these in my blue state almost two decades ago.

Aka the Flashbulb if you're looking for some sweet music.

truly the blueprint for now on. lol

Thats a lot of bullshit words for something that has no right to exist in American society. The company flock is unethical in its existence. We should tar and feather the ceos and investors and punish and shame people who don't value freedom and privacy. You should be ashamed.

Agreed, flock is no longer a startup they are coming up on 10 years.

There has been some big in depth right ups and coverage, but alot of the coverage is small town news orgs documenting the presence.

The biggest thing to be watching is the Institute for Justice lawsuit vs city of Norfolk.

If they are successful it will have large implications across the US.