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> Today, six years after that patent was granted, we can that this idea has progressed [..]:
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>> Thousands of people catching trains in the #UnitedKingdom likely had their faces scanned by #Amazon software as part of widespread #AI trials, new documents reveal. The image recognition system was used to predict travelers’ age, gender, and potential emotions — with the suggestion that the data could be used in #advertising systems in the future.

#Dystopia https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=dystopia&iax=images&ia=images

@[email protected] I wouldn’t have that thing or anything like it in my house. I can’t remember if it was Brave New World, or 1984, but there was a device in one of those stories that pretty much is an Alexa. Having a mobile phone is more than enough monitoring already. I don’t even use shop loyalty cards for the same reason.

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> Today, six years after that patent was granted, we can that this idea has progressed:
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>> Thousands of people catching trains in the #UnitedKingdom likely had their faces scanned by #Amazon software as part of widespread #AI trials, new documents reveal. The image recognition system was used to predict travelers’ age, gender, and potential emotions — with the suggestion that the data could be used in #advertising systems in the future.

#Dystopia https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=dystopia&iax=images&ia=images

@[email protected] I remember "The camera panopticon" from about that time.

Just then I had worked on a social network a couple of years before, and it was very clear to me that if you don't pay for a service, you may be a user, but you're not the client, you're the product.

@[email protected] I quit FB the day I saw this in 2014. Haven’t looked back since. Thank you Aral.

@[email protected] I hadn't seen it yet, glad you brought it back, can I use it in my lectures?