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He is just an amateur, I find it funny that its news since he collected only 40K pictures, any one with couple of hundred dollars and smarts can probably get fe
by facerecognizer 10y ago
He is just an amateur, I find it funny that its news since he collected only 40K pictures, any one with couple of hundred dollars and smarts can probably get few million pictures easily using pool of EC2 spot instances with disposable IP addresses.
Not to mention there are several million face dataset available easily. http://megaface.cs.washington.edu http://megaface.cs.washington.edu
Also there is really no point in attacking him, other than for typical clickbait outrage.
Finally how is this worse than those name and shame Tinder/OKCupid/Jezebel blog posts, or the horrible actions of the Wikileaks/Intercept crooks.
- danso 10y agoMegaface is not "available easily". You have to email the team and ask for permission to get access credentials: http://megaface.cs.washington.edu/participate/challenge2.html http://megaface.cs.washington.edu/participate/challenge2.htm... Since so few details about terms of use on the dataset are available, it's reasonable to assume the access control is put up in place for reasons other than bandwidth concerns.