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That's a guns don't kill people argument applied to facial recognition tech. China is building mass surveillance with every tool available. It is not a secret o
by panny 7y ago
That's a guns don't kill people argument applied to facial recognition tech. China is building mass surveillance with every tool available. It is not a secret or a national slur. It is a fact that they use mass surveillance against Muslim ethnic minorities to justify sending them off to re-education camps.
Shame on you. Authors of AI software have a responsibility to act ethically. Just because it might be used for something harmless doesn't justify something that will be applied in a harmful manner to many with certainty.
- dang 7y agoOn HN, it's not ok to ethnically interpret someone's name, map it to their national or racial origin and cast aspersions on them. People can't do that here no matter how strong their political passions are, and we ban accounts that use HN for nationalistic or racial or ethnic battle. Speaking of that, your account's submission history clearly shows an agenda of nationalistic battle. That is not what this site is for, so please don't do that, regardless of which nation you're for or against. Also, please keep the language of the online shaming culture off HN, even when addressing moderators. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- panny 7y agoCalling out China for mass suveillance is racist because everyone in China has the same ethnicity because China purges minorities using surveillance tech because calling out China for mass surveillance is racist... You got me Dang. Impenetrable logic.
- dang 7y agoWhat I wrote seems clear, and this doesn't remotely resemble it. Individuals are not "China" and deserve the benefit of the doubt regardless of their national origin. That seems like a platitude and I can't quite believe I need to repeat it here.