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vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
I would expect algorithms like that to put out likelihoods, not hard identifications. All it does is say "this person looks like that person". I wouldn't read that as "wrong".
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
Again, how is that story a failure of AI/face recognition?

At some point they even have a human compare the likeness, and the human also concludes it is the same person.

The article even features the sentence "teve Talley is hardly the first person to be arrested for the errors of a forensic evaluation."

And yet people seem to be hellbent to make it about AI.
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
Where exactly is the failure? It identified a person who looks similar to the person in the drivers license? It could even actually be the same person, given that the drivers license is assumed to be fake (so the fake could use the photograph of the suspect).
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
Have you tried Human Resource Machine?
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
I don't see much explaining of the capabilities of AI in the article.
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
Pretty sure that only applies to peaceful protests.
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
I have heard it is a common strategy among activists now, but that was a claim made by their "opponents", so not sure how prevalent it is.
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
OK, but you can find such quotes for everything. "We estimate the global demand to be about 3 computers" "nobody will need more than 16KB of memory" and so on.

(I'm not a fan of XRP, anyways)
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
What makes you so sure that these people were arrested for telling the truth? What about telling the truth would be an offense worthy of arrest in the US? Assange and Manning come to mind, for leaking government secrets.

But according to the article, most arrests happened in connection with Black Lives Matter protests.

It seems equally plausible that more people than ever try to evade arrest by claiming they are journalists. Or journalist have less and less ethics when doing their jobs.

Not saying that's the root cause, just that you can not simply assume all those people were arrested for telling "the truth".

And how do people who bemoan that stand on the subject of censorship on social networks?
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
That's a lot more effort than a quick 2$ at the corner cafe.
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
Learn at what moment your defenses are down so that they can sell you stuff, presumably. Isn't that the general assumption about tracking?

Or sell your data to interested parties. Maybe if you liked certain GitHub repos, you are more likely to vote Democrat or whatever.
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
Unless you are rich, then poor people are the problem.
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
de-gentrification is a good thing if you don't like cupcakes and cafes and nice restaurants and nice shops.
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
What is meant by 4)? So users have the right to see a web site without ads? I think if users don't consent, you should be allowed to block their access to your web site?
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
Why should they?
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
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vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
If the choice is to otherwise let them starve, yes.
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
All the options you give leave the children worse off, because they lose their source of income.
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
That would be idiotic. We are well off because we can make cheap things (including food). To make things arbitrarily more expensive would make everybody worse off.

Likewise clinging to inefficient means of production. The poor countries in Africa are poor because they can not produce as efficiently as other countries. Not because other countries give them cheap stuff.

I mean we would be making things more expensive via taxes, and give the tax money to Africa so that they can buy things more cheaply. Why not just sell them cheaply to Africa to begin with? Cut out the middle (tax) man.
vrperson
·6 lat temu·discuss
Maybe they should try other lines of business then?