Funny how, a decade ago, they called us “tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists” for suggesting such things and we were shunned by “respectable” folks in the web community afraid to lose their favoured status as Big Tech’s bottom feeders.
#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #capitalism #surveillance #BigWeb #web #SmallTech #ethicalTech #privacy #humanRights https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/113489107039210087
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
> 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&%3Bq=dystopia&%3Biax=images&%3Bia=images
@smallcircles@social.coop @aral@mastodon.ar.al Yikes.