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Re:Tool can make photos undetectable to facial recognition w... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:46AM (#26955736)
> You will make the technology more expensive and harder to use by majority of bad actors.

It's software, mostly. People will share SOTA algorithms for free, like they do today. I don't think the cost for bad actors will rise much (and it's not like most of them have money problems).

On the contrary, I imagine it'll just accelerate development of computer vision that reproduces human vision in a bug-compatible way. The only way to confuse it will be to make the image confusing to humans too.

Re:Tool can make photos undetectable to facial recognition w... by simion314 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:13AM (#26956117)
>It's software, mostly. People will share SOTA algorithms for free, like they do today. I don't think the cost for bad actors will rise much (and it's not like most of them have money problems).

Can I get access to high quality voice recognition or text to speech software? The only way I know is to use cloud APIs to get access to latest and greatest.

Re:Tool can make photos undetectable to facial recognition w... by mkl on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:08PM (#26960091)
The algorithms, yes (see e.g. wav2letter and others), but not the training data. Mozilla's Common Voice (https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en) is trying to make training data available, but proprietary systems can use that as well as the existing data advantage they have.
Re:Tool can make photos undetectable to facial recognition w... by naniwaduni on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:53AM (#26956710)
Most bad actors do have money problems, or at least are meaningfully resource-constrained.

The really scary ones, sure, they may as well have resources: Yes. But that's almost the biggest part of what makes them scary.