Re:Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained...
by bufferoverflow on Saturday March 31, 2018 @05:50AM
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You can't stop progress, even if it's negative. Especially something that is relatively easy to make. If nukes were easy to make, we'd all be dead.
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Re:Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained...
by sametmax on Saturday March 31, 2018 @06:33AM
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You can't. But you can choose not to be part of it. I refused politely an interview with google and facebook for the same reason in the past.
The world is what you make of it
People keep saying you can't change the world. That you can't do anything about it.
Well yes you can. Don't be part of it.
Oh yes, there is a price to pay.
Re:Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained...
by knuththetruth on Saturday March 31, 2018 @11:54AM
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You can absolutely work to redefine what “progress” means, who technology will serve, and how it’s bounty and harms are distributed.
If you live in a Western democracy, you’re reaping the benefit of a series of such struggles from the 17th century forward. The Enlightenment, various democratic revolutions, labor organization, etc. The fatalism, the “unchallengeable trajectory” solipsism that categorizes so much of the thinking around tech is the thing that’s new.