Image recognition AI has been found to be vulnerable to prompt injection via text present in the image.

Nepenthies is a type of webpage that generates an endless chain of links and pages to bait in content scrapers and feed them garbage that poisons their training data.

If it makes you feel better that AI is almost certainly doing a horrible job that will burden your former employer with unfixable tech debt in just a few years.

You could piss off the company running them though, don’t these cameras use AI? Get some QR codes that lead to nepenthies traps full of their own AI generated images of nonsense license plates. Waste their money and poison their training data.

Stupid AI bloat asside, the important part of this article is:

lightweight, web-based Windows shell

This is the start of the ‘thin client’ we’ve been warned about.

iirc the power is not very doable, You’d need hundreds of times as many solar pannels as are on the ISS to power a single modest data centre.

Just waiting for Trump to invade Panema and bring about the final collapse of the US.