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Re:Tool can make photos undetectable to facial recognition w... by shawnz on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:01AM (#26955933)
Humans are machines, so why wouldn't that be necessarily true?
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Re:Tool can make photos undetectable to facial recognition w... by just_steve_h on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:46AM (#26956608)
Machines are designed, constructed, and built by humans.

If humans are "machines," then who built us?

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Re:Tool can make photos undetectable to facial recognition w... by shawnz on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:51AM (#26956674)
I think it's debatable whether that's a necessary condition for something to be reasonably considered a machine.
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