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If I have a friend that is visually impaired and is using this, I have to consent to their phone recording me and analyzing me and sending all of that data off
by ve55 9y ago
If I have a friend that is visually impaired and is using this, I have to consent to their phone recording me and analyzing me and sending all of that data off to who knows where.
And this is just from my perspective - someone who is not visually impaired. For the person who is, every single thing they look at and read is going to be recorded and used.
It's an unfortunate situation for people to put in, and I'm sure everyone will choose using improvements like this over not using them. As much as I would love to see a focus on privacy for projects like this, I don't imagine it happening any time soon, given how powerful the data involved is.
I imagine a future where AI assistants like this are commonplace, and there is no escaping them.
- scalablenotions 9y agoAs far as public use goes, it's always been considered legal / ethical to photograph people in public places. One does not know where the "information" in a photograph will end up, but since they are already technically in public view, it's something of a moot point.
- njsubedi 9y agoWhere do you want to escape?
- visarga 9y agoIn the future, most AI will happen locally, not remote, because of privacy, latency and cost. There is a lot of research in adapting models to fit phones (such as reducing the size of the NN by 20x-100x and still having almost all the accuracy).
- bramd 9y agoYes, you are right, but things like face recognition in this app run locally already. I tried it in airplane mode. Also, check this blog from a blind user and some interesting comments: http://chrishofstader.com/seeing-ai-first-impressions/ http://chrishofstader.com/seeing-ai-first-impressions/