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Comment Re:Feh (Score 1) 46

It won't be long before robots are watching AI generated content to satisfy moronic companies. And believe me, the robots don't mind watching ads.

YouTube (and its parent Google) long ago lost any interest in not being evil and now *everything* they do is all about hiking revenues and boosting that bottom line. If you think otherwise then you're sadly deluded.

So true.

Comment Re:Forget the AI! (Score 1) 162

I'd love to know what the supposedly offensive joke is.

But apart from that, this is more opressive than communist Russia or red China. I hope you Yanks are proud of what your country (land of the FREE, home of the BRAVE) has become. Yes, I know this is not something most Amerikans have welcomed, but if you don't do something about this, it will only get worse.

Comment Tell me you're a city boy... (Score 1) 66

without telling me you're a city boy.

Also, messsages won't get stored on centralized infrastructure but will get stored on every device you come in vicinity with. It will be weeks, if not days before a hacked version appears that retains all messages it receives.
And the technology is not viable for communication along large distances. What will the latency between Europe and the US be? 7 hours at best.

Comment Re:Hubris (Score 1) 100

There was 6 seconds between the final text message that did not indicate any problems (drop two weights, probably to get neutral buoyancy) and the final automated ping, and the sound of the implosion was heard before that ping arrived (but that sound travelled faster than the ping).
So, no last minutes spent sitting in their coffin in the dark waiting to die. It very likely came suddenly and without warning. Don't try to make this into a sob-story.

Comment Re:Finger of blame pointing in the wrong direction (Score 2) 60

I absolutely can when the software design essentially invites this misuse.

There is absolutely no invitation of misuse. That's like saying every piece of software where you enter data is inviting misuse.

It's the same as me making a photograph of your face and putting it at my shop window and saying "he stole from me". It is still me making the photograph. It is not the camera maker's fault, nor the printer maker's fault that I put your mugshot on my shop window. That is entirely on the person who makes the wrongful accusation. And you do that my entering in the system "shoplifter". Not by making the facial match.
It would be a different case if the system matched the wrong face with the stored image. But that is not the case. The image recognition software did what it was supposed to do. How the shop and its employees acted on that is incorrect (and they were in the wrong entering the wrong information in the first place).

Comment Re:Finger of blame pointing in the wrong direction (Score 1) 60

The facial recognition software did not identify her as a shoplifter.

Facial recognition software system said "this woman has been identified as a shoplifter".

That's the same as saying gun manufacturers kill people. It's saying the developer of mpeg is of bittorrent is responsible for child porn being distributed.
Sure, their system flagged her, but only because incorrect information was fed to the system. You can not blame the system for that, you have to blame the data entry point.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying facial recognition for this purpose is ok. I don't want it either. But put blame where blame belongs.

It's immaterial WHY it flagged her

No it isn't.

, whether a bug, a fundamental flaw or a bad database entry. It's still a dystopian auto-judge/jury/executioner and auto-slander with little recourse.

But that is the shop's responsibility, not the facial software maker's. Again, you can not blame the maker of a piece of software when it is not being used properly.

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