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Image detection is theft. It is either stealing compute cycles or network bandwidth. If you work for a company advancing this technology you are evil and shoul

Image detection is theft. It is either stealing compute cycles or network bandwidth. If you work for a company advancing this technology you are evil and should rethink your life choices.

edmundsauto 5y ago
This is a pretty hot take! I think by this logic, your comment is also theft - it uses my brain cycles and calories from my hard earned budget to process. (Your second paragraph allows for no context or nuance and is just completely unnecessary.)
- arthurcolle 5y ago
  He's right you know
- hda2 5y ago
  Apples and oranges. A person's expectations and rights relating to a discussion on a public forum are nothing like those relating to a device you own. GP's "pretty hot take" is correct.
  - bigyikes 5y ago
    What if I’m aware of the image scanning wasting my CPU cycles, just like I’m aware of comments wasting my brain cycles? I don’t think my “rights” related to accessing my OS software is much different than my rights related to accessing discussion forum software. Seems pretty apples to apples to me. (I don’t like image scanning, and I don’t like wasted brain cycles, if that matters)
    - hda2 5y ago
      > What if I’m aware of the image scanning wasting my CPU cycles, just like I’m aware of comments wasting my brain cycles? Before buying the device? Sure, if you want. You would be aware that those wasted cycles and wasted network traffic are part of the price. But what about the rest of us who aren't like you, who bought the device without knowing before hand that this theft would take place?
charcircuit 5y ago
Let me guess. Autoupdate is theft too.
- josefx 5y ago
  Auto update at least in theory provides a value to the user. The algorithm implemented by Apple goes out of its way to ensure that the user wont be able to interpret the result, only Apple and potentially law enforcement will ever know it.
- antifa 5y ago
  I've had working versions of software stolen from me by Google chrome auto updating extensions and Android autoupdating apps. There needs to be something like package.json or cargo.toml to protect users from rogue application developers, rogue operating system developers, and rogue chrome extension developers.

Image detection is theft. It is either stealing compute cycles or network bandwidth. If you work for a company advancing this technology you are evil and should rethink your life choices.

edmundsauto 5y ago

This is a pretty hot take! I think by this logic, your comment is also theft - it uses my brain cycles and calories from my hard earned budget to process. (Your second paragraph allows for no context or nuance and is just completely unnecessary.)

arthurcolle 5y ago
He's right you know
hda2 5y ago
Apples and oranges. A person's expectations and rights relating to a discussion on a public forum are nothing like those relating to a device you own. GP's "pretty hot take" is correct.
- bigyikes 5y ago
  What if I’m aware of the image scanning wasting my CPU cycles, just like I’m aware of comments wasting my brain cycles? I don’t think my “rights” related to accessing my OS software is much different than my rights related to accessing discussion forum software. Seems pretty apples to apples to me. (I don’t like image scanning, and I don’t like wasted brain cycles, if that matters)
  - hda2 5y ago
    > What if I’m aware of the image scanning wasting my CPU cycles, just like I’m aware of comments wasting my brain cycles? Before buying the device? Sure, if you want. You would be aware that those wasted cycles and wasted network traffic are part of the price. But what about the rest of us who aren't like you, who bought the device without knowing before hand that this theft would take place?

charcircuit 5y ago

Let me guess. Autoupdate is theft too.

josefx 5y ago
Auto update at least in theory provides a value to the user. The algorithm implemented by Apple goes out of its way to ensure that the user wont be able to interpret the result, only Apple and potentially law enforcement will ever know it.
antifa 5y ago
I've had working versions of software stolen from me by Google chrome auto updating extensions and Android autoupdating apps. There needs to be something like package.json or cargo.toml to protect users from rogue application developers, rogue operating system developers, and rogue chrome extension developers.