Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’ algorithms to detect the unwanted objects, according to interviews and documents the Guardian obtained through public records requests.
I think it’s a stupid policy but I don’t see how any of this is applicable. If the AI identifies an encampment, it’s going to be police that come and scare them off. This isn’t like a red light camera where you get mailed a ticket because there’s no address to send a ticket to and the AI isn’t going to be able to identify individuals occupying a tent.