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Who do you think is correcting FR users misunderstandings and insuring the poor practices you're reading about do not come true? I think my skills are critical
by bsenftner 8y ago
Who do you think is correcting FR users misunderstandings and insuring the poor practices you're reading about do not come true? I think my skills are critical here.
- jacquesm 8y agoMaking FR more 'perfect' will also allow the less desirable regimes to go after their dissidents in a more 'perfect' way, there are some historic implications that might have changed the balance completely. Now, of course there is such a thing as the distinction between the tool (say, a hammer) and its use (say, hammering a nail in), and the alternative uses that those tools are being used for. The people at Google and Facebook are slowly figuring out that their data driven perfect future may not be one that they themselves (or their descendants) would like to live in. Face recognition for computers enables a whole pile of use cases that are downright scary and I would love for such tech to be stalled as long as possible.
- hnaccount141 8y agoWhat makes you think that you (or anyone else for that matter) are capable of preventing the abuse of FR? I appreciate that you and many others in the space are working with the best intentions, it just seems like any potential benefits of FR are dwarfed by its potential use as a tool of oppression.
- bsenftner 8y agoWhat makes you think that you (or anyone else for that matter) are capable of preventing the abuse of FR by walking away and declaring an easily created technology simply taboo? It is going to be developed, like it or not. May as well have intimate knowledge of it, help to educate others, and actually know how to defeat it. Walking away you're just blind.