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“there are spineless cowards out there getting up every morning to go and build facial recognition software.” Almost any technology can be abused. There are a
by rqtwteye 3y ago
“there are spineless cowards out there getting up every morning to go and build facial recognition software.”
Almost any technology can be abused. There are a lot of good uses for facial recognition and also a lot of bad. I don’t think the people who develop technology are responsible of cowards for how it’s being used. That’s up to the big guys. If you want to work on stuff that’s for sure only used for “good” purposes, your world will be very small.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoThis isn't a case of "we're making this for some noble purpose, but it might be abused". This is "we're making this so that we can use it for evil". Like the engineers at Palintir who were working on the whole predictive policing thing. There's no good that can come of that (I suppose the same could be true if you left out everything after "Palintir" in that sentence). The core motivation of developing the technology is evil.
- carbotaniuman 3y agoPredictive policing feels like something that someone could think would be noble but could be abused though? Like to me, most things that we consider "evil", someone else could conceivably consider noble or useful or at least a net positive.