Where have you been the last decade? It’s already in use, or models like it, by companies selling access to The State

https://deflock.me

Not to mention cloud platforms that collect evidence and process it with all the models and store that information for searching…

https://www.revir.ai

It was already used before current AI explosion.

This is why keeping our governments from eating that tasty apple of "if you can record AND analyse everything there will be so much less crime" and "just give us keys to all private communication, we swear we will just use it to find bad guys". Because someone will, and someone will use it to hit on people they don't like

This tech would be a massive waste of computational resources to do that. Technology for what you said is way more efficient and has been working well for years now.

How do you think this tech was developed in the first place? It's probably trained and used in the surveillance bid for a decade before it comes to consumers, and this probably isn't the SoA stuff that governments have access to, we're probably 5-10 years behind what's on the cutting edge.

We got Facial Rec and LPR first, those are more dangerous for surveillance.

2009, you rang?

warmly encourage you avoid reading the header files of the dahua camera SDK

In surveillance and police states like The Netherlands it has been used since forever:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/01/smart-cities-...

Now people will say again that this project has been abandoned, which just isn't true (2024):

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/06/smart-street-surveillance-o...

Big Brother is a reference to George Orwell's critique of Communism in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Qwen is a video model trained by a Communist government, or technically by a company with very close ties to the Chinese government. The Chinese government also has laws requiring AI be used to further the political goals of China in particular and authoritarian socialism in general.

In the light of all this, I think it's reasonable to conclude that this technology will be used for Big Brother type surveillance and quite possible that it was created explicitly for that purpose.