Watched the new Spiderman movie today and something that made me think was him tapping into real time face recognition surveillance cameras around the city to track his enemies real time, which I thought was strange to say the least in the light of the recent controversies around Flock cameras in the US. Is there something going on behind the scenes to plant the idea that these make for safer cities, or am I being paranoid and the movie is just trying to be cool by being hi-tech?
The other thing that caught my attention was him talking to his computer with natural language. Now this one isn’t exactly new for superhero movies, I remember Jarvis and Ironman, but regardless it came across as the sort of techbro dream scenario that the current day AI assistans are trying to realize, which is not an angle I’d consider at the time that I was watching the original Ironman.
I should probably stop overthinking these things and just try enjoying the movie instead, but I was curious to hear what others think about this.
This was insightful, I had not made these connections.
What worries me is people walking out of the cinemas thinking (perhaps mostly unconsciously) that the surveillance helped save the day, while I watched a clip just the other day what a camera reading a plate (let alone face) incorrectly can lead to (in that case arresting people at gunpoint only to let them go later because the camera had read an X as a Y).