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Re:Eyechat by pcranaway on Thursday August 08, 2024 @06:21AM (#41189881)
To the people worried about their data being sent to google or whatever (I'm not sure what they're actually worried about) -- the extraction of your eyes is done client side, using a seemingly very well made ML model running on Tensorflow which fits in under 15mb.

The feed of your camera is transmitted "directly" to the person you're looking at (well, no, not really directly, it uses WebRTC, so your data passes through Neal's TURN server, but do you really think Neal wants to take care of properly storing your data and handing it off to advertisers?)

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Re:Eyechat by BossingAround on Thursday August 08, 2024 @08:04AM (#41190600)
So even after this thought process, it comes down to "do you trust the author" (just like before it)... Not unreasonable to answer either way if you ask me.
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Re:Eyechat by sdenton4 on Thursday August 08, 2024 @09:10PM (#41197955)
Yeah, we should probably add a blockchain to the design so that we don't have to trust anyone.
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Re:Eyechat by davedx on Friday August 09, 2024 @09:09AM (#41201491)
What, how do you know all this?
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Re:Eyechat by dvaun on Friday August 09, 2024 @05:21PM (#41205485)
Your browser has developer tools which provide views into transmitted files, network requests, etc. You poke around and see how it is implemented using the tools.
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