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Skeptical. The Chinese government can afford to hire people who have better photoshop skills than this to censor these buildings. Baidu should also be able to d
by cantagi 10y ago
Skeptical. The Chinese government can afford to hire people who have better photoshop skills than this to censor these buildings. Baidu should also be able to do a better job of censorship than this. To me this looks like some kind of algorithmic failure on the part of Baidu, perhaps the output of some convnet designed to remove watermarks and close foreground objects.
- maxander 10y agoThere are lots of streetview (or Total View or whatever) images, though. Wouldn't be surprised if done official had said streetview had to be censored and then vastly underestimated how large an undertaking that was, so there's then only a handful of underpaid guys tasked with photoshopping out the whole nation's sensitive infrastructure.
- anotheryou 10y agoMaybe Baidu just thought they can do better than that ugly blurring of Google.