US businessman reportedly working with #CCP in #China to spread pro-China #propaganda globally. Network of US nonprofits whose donors cannot be traced used to fund activist groups around the world.
Hopefully this is gift link, not sure if it worked.
#HitoSteyerl - Mean #images#ai
"#SenseTime is an #ArtificialIntelligence firm that, until April 2019, provided surveillance software to #Chinese authorities that was used to monitor and track #Uighurs; it had been flagged numerous times as having potential links to human-rights violations. It seems the combination of my name and face was not only used to optimize #MachineVision for #RacialClassification, but that this optimization was swiftly put into practice to identify and track members of an ethnic minority in #China. The fact of my existence on the internet was enough to turn my face into a tool of literal #discrimination wielded by an actually existing digital autocracy. [...] We interviewed [...] S., a student who did an internship in an ai start-up that offered personalized luxury travel recommendations to the better-off. His company’s communication strategy emphasized automation, with a recommender system allegedly based on users’ preferences extracted from social media. But behind the scenes, it outsourced all its processes to micro-providers in #Madagascar. It did no #MachineLearning" https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii140/articles/hito-steyerl-mean-images
If democracies don't finally begin pulling together and fighting the spread of #autocracyeverywhere, more and more developing democracies will fail and fall into a pit of #surveillance#dictatorship where civil society will be deprived of any possibility of organizing opposition again.
We know which regime is driving these "developments", but bankers and industrialists from democracies are still queueing up to kowtow its Leader while lobbying at home to ensure business continues as usual.