Friends and Neighbors, fellow conspiracy realist, it is a government and AI week here on stuff

they don't want you to know. So for tonight's classic, we looked back through the archives

and we found some stuff that we had been sort of flummoxed about for a while for more than five

years now. Oh yeah, we talk a lot about the technology that was shown off.

In that certain Tom Cruise movie, you remember the one, the one with the psychics, the

ones that could pre-crime everybody?

Well, one of the big things that was shown off in that movie that struck all of us at the time when it came out is this concept of facial recognition everywhere you go in a city.

Well, there's a company that's been trying to do this for a long time.

And some stuff went down in 2020, and that's when we made this episode.

Yes.

This is where we introduce you to the concept of Clearview AI.

The argument of supporters would be this can prevent crime.

This can make the world a safer place through the power of pattern recognition and super juiced up algorithms. But then, as we learned, there

were a lot of detractors for technology like this being rolled out. And Clearview's stories,

they originally tell it, doesn't always match the things people found out later. Yeah, I mean,

this is a story that is more relevant now than ever.

So why don't we take a quick break here?

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