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Re:Scraping Tinder selfies to make a dataset for AI experiments by facerecognizer on Saturday April 29, 2017 @04:13PM (#14228492)
He is just an amateur, I find it funny that its news since he collected only 40K pictures, any one with couple of hundred dollars and smarts can probably get few million pictures easily using pool of EC2 spot instances with disposable IP addresses.

Not to mention there are several million face dataset available easily. http://megaface.cs.washington.edu

Also there is really no point in attacking him, other than for typical clickbait outrage.

Finally how is this worse than those name and shame Tinder/OKCupid/Jezebel blog posts, or the horrible actions of the Wikileaks/Intercept crooks.

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Re:Scraping Tinder selfies to make a dataset for AI experiments by danso on Saturday April 29, 2017 @04:20PM (#14228529)
Megaface is not "available easily". You have to email the team and ask for permission to get access credentials: http://megaface.cs.washington.edu/participate/challenge2.htm...

Since so few details about terms of use on the dataset are available, it's reasonable to assume the access control is put up in place for reasons other than bandwidth concerns.

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