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Funny and scary that you describe it as a Pandora's box, as an author of a related patent! "Advertising is about to get surreal." Minority-Report-style ads, her
by lioeters 8y ago
Funny and scary that you describe it as a Pandora's box, as an author of a related patent! "Advertising is about to get surreal." Minority-Report-style ads, here they come..
- black_puppydog 8y agoPersonally, I'm waiting for AR UBlock. That would put the "augmented" in AR. :)
- bernardom 8y agoWould AR UBlock allow you to replace all the people in ads with people of your choice? So all spokesmen for me could be Gilbert Gottfried in a neon colored t-shirt?
- drb91 8y agoI imagine it’d just cancel or black the ads out, I’d hope.
- andrewmcwatters 8y agoSomeone here on HN had recently shared some hairstyles, facial accessories, and alterations that prevented common face detection implementations from recognizing your head, which seemed relevant and pretty cool from a tech punk perspective, too.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoI wouldn't really blame a person for not realizing, back almost 20 years ago, the full extent to which this technology could be used, when coupled with similar tech for audio processing, cheap compute, and the world consuming information primarily from the Internet.
- bsenftner 8y agoI realized the potential, and wanted to steward the deployment in such a manner that civil society is not subjected to fake news, or privacy attacks such as public and private persons inserted into media against their will. The ultimate reason I was unsuccessful was a firm stance against pornography, which VC, media partners and angels insisted on an ability to exploit.
- sequoia 8y agoI'm sure it's little consolation, but kudos to you for sticking to your ethics. I sure wish more in the tech community would take this approach!
- mottosso 8y agoAnd what approach is that? Delaying the inevitable? :)
- pixelbash 8y agoBy around 15 years, not bad?
- jcims 8y agoHow long will it be before a resourceful individual will be able to meaningfully engineer a biological or synthetic pathogen that could wipe out a good portion of the human race? 1000 years? 200 years? 50 years? There's nothing wrong with buying a little time while society catches up with the technology.
- lioeters 8y agoMuch respect to making a moral stand! I suppose it's true that others will continue developing the "full potential" (including ethically questionable applications) of the technology, but at least one can make the choice to not contribute to undesired directions.