India’s 50-year-old welfare programme now uses AI to decide who gets food. Across Anganwadi centres, pregnant women and new mothers must pass a facial recognition scan before receiving rations.

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    Article: omg AI bad Also Article: fuck illustrators, let’s use AI slop for the image.

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    • write software “we can’t control”
    • governments mandate they have more control so they can take the blame
    • have even more control over users
    • abuse that power
    • profit
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      Somehow it’s acceptable because a computer is involved. Imagine if the powers that be chose a physical method of obfuscation. Like, what if they said "we’ve decided you can only get this benefit you’re entitled to after flipping a coin to heads.