With the development of increasingly smart artificial intelligence and lots more cameras spread around than ever before, we have reached a critical point in the US and other countries where governments can easily track everyone, everywhere, all the time.
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# Facial Recognition Technology Episode Summary
This episode dives deep into the rapidly advancing world of facial recognition technology, exploring how it works, where it's being used, and why experts are sounding the alarm about our march toward mass surveillance. Josh and Chuck break down the technical side—how computers learn to identify faces and create similarity scores—but spend most of their time grappling with the serious privacy and civil liberties implications as companies like Clearview AI and law enforcement agencies deploy this technology with virtually no legal oversight. They wrestle with the genuine benefits like catching human traffickers and finding missing children against the dystopian potential of a society where everyone is perpetually in a police lineup simply for having a driver's license, all while highlighting how the technology disproportionately misidentifies people of color.
"Like your Jesse Pinkman or something like that. And then you just throw that phone away. — Josh references Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad as an example of someone using a burner phone."
— Josh
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982
1h 30m
★ 6.8
"Who is the sleazeball from Fast Times at Ridgemont High who is the ticket scalper? — Chuck references an actor from Fast Times at Ridgemont High who also appears in Short Circuit."
— Chuck
"We all watch CSI. I don't. Law and order. I don't. — Chuck responds that he doesn't watch Law & Order either."
— Chuck
"Andy Griffith, like all that stuff. Shit, he got me there. Matlock. Nope. — Chuck responds negatively when Josh mentions Matlock."
— Chuck
Medal for Return to Wolfenstein Castle
2012
1h 23m
"I feel like I remember what you're talking about. Let's just play Castle Wolfenstein. That was a good one. — Josh mentions Castle Wolfenstein as a computer game they played instead of other programs."
— Josh
"But what it's really doing is it's producing a similarity score. But when it says yes, and it spits out another picture. It's not like this is that person. No, you want it to be because we all watch NCIS. — Josh references NCIS as an example of how people expect facial recognition to work like TV shows."
— Josh
"We all watch. Party down. I do. — Josh mentions Party Down as a TV show he watches."
— Josh
Short Circuit
1986
1h 38m
★ 6.6
"I think you're talking about Short Circuit. I never saw that, believe that. What, with Johnny Five? — Josh corrects Chuck, saying he's thinking of Short Circuit instead of WarGames."
— Josh
Singles
1992
1h 39m
★ 6.4
"That's how they used to do it. Oh yeah, that was one of the subplots of singles, the Cameron Crow movie. — Josh references the Cameron Crowe film Singles which featured a dating service subplot."
— Josh
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
★ 7.6
"Andy Griffith, like all that stuff. Shit, he got me there. Matlock. Nope. — Josh mentions The Andy Griffith Show as an example of crime shows."
— Josh
The Oregon Trail
1977
TV-PG
★ 5.7
"And I was like, man, let's just play Castle Wolfenstein. Yeah, I never did Oregon Trail. — Chuck mentions never playing Oregon Trail, comparing it to Castle Wolfenstein."
— Chuck
Top Gun
1986
1h 50m
★ 7.1
"They go, hey. What is that? That was Tom Cruise laughing and chewing gum. — Josh makes a reference to Tom Cruise from Top Gun in relation to aviators."
— Josh
True Detective
2014
★ 8.3
"Man, true detective the first season. First four episodes, just amazing. — Chuck praises the first season of True Detective and its opening episodes."
— Chuck
WarGames
1983
1h 54m
★ 7.1
"Matthew Broderick in War Games, Roland. And this is Stuff You Should Know. — Josh mentions Matthew Broderick starring in WarGames as an opening joke."
— Josh
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