Computer vision research feeds surveillance tech as patent links spike 5×

A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s. The researchers, including Stanford University's Pratyusha Ria Kalluri and Trinity College Dublin's Abeba Birhane, collected more than 19,000 research papers and more than 23,000 …

[Richard 12]

Where evil begins

Treating people as things

[Evil Scot]

Re: Where evil begins

As they say up in Lancre.

(Granny says you can have one, just don't give it to Nanny. She has had enough)

[HuBo]

Interesting perspective

Good indeed to remember that "Computer vision has historical roots in military and carceral surveillance" with facial-recognition technology as the "plutonium of artificial intelligence" (ref. 6) which could benefit from "key figures [making] informed decisions regarding the role they wish to play" in it, like Russell-Einstein's Pugwash (ref. 50).

Within this view, the "rapid generation and proliferation of technologies monitoring humans" nicely circles back to Zuboff's notion that "the internet [has been redefined] as a surveillance prison with no bars and no exit" (ref. 7) fine-tuned for optimized harvesting of its inmates' behavioral surplus ...

Time to practice subtle face cloaking and behavioral disguise imho, to thwart the panopticon, and escape the splurge!