concept: a security system that uses ai not for facial recognition but for video compression. after training a neural network on months worth of footage of the specific hallway the camera is aimed at, they’re remarkably able to reduce how much data the footage requires to a mere handful of bytes per hour 99% losslessly.
they don’t figure out until it’s too late that it’s able to achieve this level of accuracy and efficiency because 99% of the time the hallway is empty so it just generates a constant feed of an empty hallway