Posts by Hemmels 20 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jan 2019
I love that you started the sentence with "One trouble with (1)". Of course there are many.
What's wrong with how DuckDuckGo et al operate whereby adverts are old fashioned (non-targeted and static image+links)?
No need to do any browser callbacks or anything, a page view count by IP will do just fine for "number of times the advert has been served)
Well yeah, I understood if someone "Bob" wants to be deleted, then that means removing all references to Bob, not deleting the data. If someone looked at the 20.2 model's data they wouldn't be able to say "Hey look, here's Bob".
Why anyone would want to run AI over a dataset of personally identi....
If your boss puts you on garden leave for something you didn't do, happy days. If anyone else wants to presume guilty, more fool them.
And yes, I know in the real world this isn't a thing, and trial by media exists and lives are ruined (hospital staff turned killers anyone?) but that doesn't mean we can't stress the point that this isn't acceptable and bow down to it.
Isn't everyone looking at the technology involved and looking for regulation or protection of interests of this stuff? Take deepfakes out of the equation for now. I guess the concern is "But they are so misleading, or will be in future and that's a worry" - But why is it a worry?
"Fake news" has grown a lot recently because of the prevelance of social media, but as far as I'm aware, even before the 90s we learned at school how to find and trust primary sources before jumping to "OMG THEY SAID THIS".
Doctoring videos has been around as long as videos. I don't even trust newspapers given their funding sources and interests of their owners.
Surely it's up to the consumer/viewer to say "I've seen a video showing X said Y" and not "X said Y". Isn't "don't believe what you see on the internet" a thing still too?
Honest question.
Do people actually follow "influencers"? What do they gain from it? They KNOW they are getting paid to advertise and push products etc, so it's not for their "unbiased, trustworthy reviews and opinion".
I just thought it was a big circlejerk where bots create accounts to "up" follower numbers and overstate "influencers" and their reach, and the lucky few at the end get phat YouTube revenue.
Dunno about anyone else, but I would sooner work in the private sector than public. (Wages? Personability?).
I assume all the best people for the job of scoping / speccing / requirement gathering etc etc feel the same as me.
With no central government IT quango to handle the pre-process, the only alternative is to throw large sums at someone else to do it (badly, but better than them).
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