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Maybe what's needed more than an elevator pitch is an open-source app using facial recognition to creep people out without abusing them.
by Estragon 11y ago
Maybe what's needed more than an elevator pitch is an open-source app using facial recognition to creep people out without abusing them.
- sdoering 11y agoWhy not abuse them. If they let themselves be led to the slaughterhouse that easily and voluntarily maybe they have to feel the pain of being abused to learn? I get more cynical by the day, the more I read/hear such accounts. I am/was an idealist, but I catch myself every so often to think, that these people do not deserve anything else. Everything is clearly visible - that possible paths are not that hard to understand. The consequences can be dire if nothing is done - non the less. They keep giving away their and everyone else's privacy in the blink of a thumb-flick on "what ever the next big app is called". Have I given up? No, I try non the less to inform people surrounding me. Do I believe in positive change? Sadly not anymore.
- kaybe 11y agoI tried to discuss the dual-use nature of their research with some machine learning/pattern recognition people (I was there to discuss maybe working with them as a student). They didn't seem to ever have thought about it at all, and were not open to start now. This was quite shocking to me. I'm not sure how to deal with the issue when even the people creating the technology are like that.