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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:38PM (#25676143)
> Why should this system be shut down when it causes no harm and works pretty well?

You believe it causes no harm, but that doesn't make for a good assumption, considering image recognition NNs have been repeatedly demonstrated to be racist. So you may find it's classification of dogs might work really well, but it might label other people's coworkers or family members as dogs.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by SulfurHexaFluri on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:34PM (#25679177)
I still don't see why I should care since its only for my personal use. I agree in other areas like law enforcement and news curation this is an issue but for my personal photo search all I care about is that it works pretty well, which it does. Some mistakes are fine here.

Which is my main point, why should this apply to all tech when in some cases unexplainable mistakes are fine?

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