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Re:Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained... by yorwba on Friday March 30, 2018 @10:08PM (#16721261)
I have not watched the dystopic thriller you mention, so I don't know what kind of drawbacks you are expecting, but I think this technology might have some useful applications.

E.g. an image-upload site could answer requests for deletion on privacy grounds not by taking the whole image down, but by obscuring only parts of the image.

Or imagine you're taking a selfie in a crowded place and don't want all those other people diverting attention away from you.

Basically, this could be used whenever someone might go for manually painting over parts of an image to remove content. Something similar for screenshots of conversations might be useful as well.

Re:Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained... by ktta on Saturday March 31, 2018 @03:14AM (#16722190)
>I have not watched the dystopic thriller you mention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror)

Netflix link: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80073158

Worth a watch, and the series is not chronological so no worries about prior knowledge.

Re:Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained... by pluma on Saturday March 31, 2018 @07:43AM (#16722877)
tl;dw: the concept has been toyed with in a number of episodes:

Imagine the death penalty was replaced by a simple "ban" from everybody else's perception. Instead of being put to death, you just appear as an outline filled with static and your voice appears as garbled noise.

Alternatively, imagine "parental controls" for a child's perception that automatically filters out "unsafe" content like sex, violence, hobos, hookers and hate speech.

Or imagine altering a soldier's perception to make enemy combatants appear less human so empathy doesn't get in the way of a clean kill.

Re:Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained... by yupyup on Sunday April 01, 2018 @06:39AM (#16727650)
SPOILER warning!
Re:Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained... by pluma on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:40AM (#16734831)
Not really. I'm not giving away which of these happens in which episode and a lot of the technology is recurring throughout the different stories. In most episodes the general idea of how the tech works is given away fairly early on and the real plot points are more about how it affects the characters.

In fact the parental controls idea is literally this: http://j.aufbix.org/plif/archive/wc161.gif and I'm pretty sure the soldier one was taken from an episode of Outer Limits or Twilight Zone.