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Cant we then just point a camera at the screen showing the frame buffer, and then pass the video stream through classifier and segmenter neural nets, and black
by totetsu 3y ago
Cant we then just point a camera at the screen showing the frame buffer, and then pass the video stream through classifier and segmenter neural nets, and black out the parts that are detected to be advertisements?
- derealized 3y agoGoogle will release a neural net that's convenient to deploy locally and inserts the ads back.
- gpderetta 3y agoBeaming ads directly to your skull is obviously the next step. Then we can get rid of the expensive to produce content for padding space between ads.
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- srgpqt 3y agoBeaming desires directly to your skull is obviously the next step. Then we can make sure you want to buy a PlausibleBurger as soon as you get your paycheck.
- Ygg2 3y agoNo. They wouldn't do that. They will buy Neuralink and download ads directly to your subconscious. Maybe tie them to dopamine triggers so each time you view and buy an ad you get a hit like you are doing meth.
- Joker_vD 3y agoOnly if the screen itself doesn't implement any visual scrabbling for DRM-protected content.
- derealized 3y agoWell, a camera wouldn't care about that.. only if you're capturing from HDMI.
- Joker_vD 3y agoNo, I meant that the screen could mess up the video stream shown so that it would look "fine" for the human eye but as a completely scrambled mess to a camera. You know how hard it was to film a CRT-monitor and AFAIK there have been some (abandoned) research on how to put something like that into LED specifically do defy the screen-capturing.
- jl6 3y agoCRTs were never impossible to film - you just had to put in some effort to adjust shutter settings on the camera. I can’t imagine there existing a technique for emitting photons perceptible to the human eye and yet it not being possible for a camera to capture them.
- derealized 3y agoGot it, that makes sense. With monitors now in 60-120Hz being common, that might be doable.
- gpderetta 3y agoThe camera DSP might shut off if it detects a watermarked signal.
- perihelions 3y agoI expect FAANG will try to normalize putting cameras in rooms to observe how screens are being used, and enforce a "no cameras pointing at screens" rule with their own cameras. Similar ideas have been stress-tested in the last couple years: eye-tracking in the context of remote academic exams, some work-from-home contracts, some competitive e-sports. Basically, environment integrity: a "trusted", "secure" physical environment — beyond just the software environment – as a mandatory prerequisite for $webThing.