Why not use AI to sort garbage instead?

Replacing garbage trucks burned by angry villagers can get expensive.

Let's pretend we're cold-hearted economists who don't care about privacy or liberty. How does this even make sense from a cost/benefit perspective? Who the fuck cares about peeling paint and overgrown lawns? How does it benefit the city to crack down on this? Even Illegal dumping, outside extreme cases, it seems like a very minor offense. Most Illegal dumping cases are like some cheap-ass dumps a mattress in a dumpster (requires a disposal fee in many places)...not some Captain Planet story where a megacorp is pumping poison into the water supply. There are certain crimes where zero tolerance benefits the city: murder, theft, etc. Overgrown lawns?...no...if someone has an overgrown lawn, you need to take care of it...but really, if you need AI cameras to tell you it's overgrown, it's not a problem.

There's no way this is cheap. There's little to no economic benefit to enforcing these laws. Even the fines collected won't offset a multi-million dollar project with pioneering technology. There's no way this project could be delivered on time and budget. Consulting companies always fleece local municipalities or they just sincerely don't know what they're doing because it is a pioneering use of technology and they underestimate how long it will take. These days, most fines are a terrible revenue source and cost more to collect than they bring in.

To me, there's ethics and economics...this violates objective economic sense and probably the ethics standards of about 95% of the population. What moron thought this was a good idea?

Cape Coral!

This is a city smart enough to water their street medians on a hot, summer day.

This is a city where you could literally die in your sleep as your house falls into a sinkhole.

This city (Lee County) and Las Vegas were grounds zero for the 2008 financial crisis.

This is the state where healthy young people subsidized the legalized opiod crisis.

In 2007 you could just walk up to a newly built home, kick in the door, and take the appliances because no one was there to stop you or live in that house. The

Every potential code violation is logged by AI using drones and garbage trucks and acted upon......

So let's stick it to the cash-strapped families and retirees who by no fault of their own can't afford to keep up with the maintenance on their homes. After all, these are the people who won't complain as much as the person with the house at the top of the hill who can afford to pay someone to primp the landscaping.

Local governments in some places have very strict codes, while others don't care if you don't mo

In the EU the GDPR [1]explicitly denies this [slashdot.org]...

"The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her."

I'm pretty sure California's equivalent has something similar too.

[1] https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/26/0536218/&%23226;&%238364;https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/&%23226;&%238364;

"27 eight-by-ten color glossy pictures

With the circles and arrows

And a paragraph on the back of each one"

Jobs will be automated to save money - Government services will do it to reduce tax burden, companies will do it to maximize profit, and people who still own things will do it to protect their things. This will result in fewer workers and more desperate poor people for the people still working to protect themselves against. There will be more and more cameras in more and more places, there will be AI monitoring them, and this will continue until there is a strong enough backlash.

It's not the Meta glasses

Fined for peeling paint! How wonderful it must be to live in the Land of the Free!!