No joke, companies working on facial recognition software should be destroyed. There’s literally no possible ethical use of that kind of technology.
I disagree, but would say that it’s complicated.
I mean i could foresee some silly app-based games coming out of it but like I’d gladly deprive the world of those games if it means preventing the ever strengthening of the surveillance state.
Fire to their offices, smash their computers.
Can’t put the genie back into the bottle; need to plan for a world where everyone’s activities are tracked basically all of the time, or could be.
Alright then I’m a primitivist now
Luckily in small primitive communities you’re not continually watched and judged every waking moment wait what the heck am I saying
I mean you can be alone all the time as a hunter-gatherer.
But I was being facetious anyway
The problem with facial recognition software is that it will finally settle the question if there truly is a difference between one’s face and ass.
As an autistic, it would be nice to augment with software to get up to baseline, as people have taken advantage of my impairment before and it sucked a lot.
Agreed (with ilzolende, not with OP).
It’s perfectly technologically feasible to give me assistive tech for my disability. We have wearable HUDs. We have software that can beat me in facial-recognition tests. The reason I don’t have assistive tech right now is because of neurotypicals whining that it would be an “invasion of privacy” to let me do to them in software what they’ve been doing to me in wetware for their entire fucking lives.
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…okay, I see I do still have that berserk button, it’s just that nobody’s pushed it in a while. I guess that’s useful to know.
(Well, I suppose I would still have it, since it’s a subcategory of the always-terrible “person [sacrifices/attempts to sacrifice/advocates sacrificing] my well-being for the Greater Good, not because they’ve weighed the pros and cons and decided the greater good was worth the harm it would cause me, but because it literally never occurred to them to factor it into the decision”.)
Look, I don’t know whether facial-recognition tech is worth it overall. I’m willing to believe that it isn’t. But we-as-a-society can’t have that discussion properly until the pro-privacy folks recognise that seeing-eye computers for prosopagnosics would, all else equal, be a good thing, and that “if we do X, such computers will exist” deserves to be added in as one of the factors when deciding whether to do X.
I’m not a neurotypical.
I see you completely ignored the second, larger half of the post, in which I frame the first half as an at best semi-endorsed knee-jerk response and give what my views are when looking past my anger.
(I left the first half in to give the reader enough of a glimpse into what’s going on in my head for an idea of just how much anger I’m suppressing later on in the hopes of a decent conversation. The rest of this thread is me trying to be civil, and if I fail, please understand it as “failed attempt to be civil” rather than “open hostility”.)
There is no established term for “non-prosopagnosic”. If you are typical in this particular aspect of your neurology, then my language was merely imprecise (as language in writing marked as knee-jerk anger tends to be) in a way not affecting the point. If you are prosopagnosic, then I am curious why assistive tech for yourself did not occur to you as a possible ethical use of facial-recognition software.
I’d like to be clear here:
I am not arguing that developing facial-recognition tech is a good idea. I don’t know whether it’s a good idea or not. What I do know is that it is not true that there is “no possible ethical use” for this technology, and that if we do champion the cause of privacy against those who seek to introduce this technology, we should go into it aware of the price we are paying for a more private world, rather than believing there are no downsides to doing the right thing. We can only determine whether the price is worth paying when we know what the price is.
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