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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Joke's on them, my face is dataset poisoning

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[–] [email protected] 249 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

how naive of him to think companies didn't already scrape his facial data from anywhere he might have had a picture 10 years ago

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yup. Last year some Harvard students put together a demo where they used Meta's smart glasses and commercial apps to scan people's faces, find their social media profiles, and summarize info about them, like where they live, work, their phone numbers, and names of their relatives in real time.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So basically Watch_Dogs profilers IRL

[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Your "facial data" isn't private information. You give it away every time you go outside.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

every time you go outside.

You guys go outside? /j

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But your likeness does belong to you. Try making money off of an AI movie featuring Taylor Swift.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't paparazzi make plenty of money off of selling unauthorized photos of celebrities? Celebrities can control some uses of their likeness, but not all of them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

True, though for now paparazzi photos generally are “here’s the celebrity in real life doing [x]” whereas AI is “celebrity never did this thing and we applied their image / voice to it like they did.” Really difficult for celebs to shut down tabloid or fan ai-generated garbage, but I think the bigger issue for them right now is film or music studios just using their likeness to keep the profits churning

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

You're talking about the American concept of having no privacy in public. Not all countries are like that.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's already done, if you have any photographs of yourself on the internet. No need to fight that battle, accept and push forward.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

I suppose I'll accept it and just start pushing forward with setting fires. 🔥

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And what if there's no photograph of myself online?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did they not give Twitter their facial data when they uploaded their avatar?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (7 children)

They do, but even if they didn't AI companies are going take them anyway. Bots make up 50% of internet traffic. AI companies have ignored robot.txt entries. Anything publicly available, even if it's behind a password, is accessible since companies like Reddit sell that information.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bots make up 50% of internet traffic.

I've read a study that claimed ads were 50% of traffic by data volume.

Is anyone actually still using the internet, or is it all ad networks sending crap to bots?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (43 children)

Yes I have.

With a model I fine tuned myself and ran locally on my own hardware.

Suck it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

yea this attitude right here is why ai bros are so beloved

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've given up and assume that my friends and family have already handed over my contact info, pictures, messages, DNA, etc

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Honestly giving up is reasonable. We need EVERYONE to respect privacy for this whole thing to work.

You could be the most privacy focused individual and your mom's facebook page would still have your graduation picture with name of the highschool you went and your home address in the back somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

That's also ignoring how all of your actual personal information (full name, address, social security, phone number, email, etc) have already been leaked 16 times this year alone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

so what you are saying is that its already over and we lost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Overwhelming so.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

ITT: People expecting the most basic of logic from a blue checkmark's brain.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I remember years ago someone in my class decided to make Russian look alike pictures of everyone in the class and post them as a gag on the doors. I forget what it was called, but several of my classmates were angry that the person had taken their pictures without consent and given them to some weird Russian picture algorithm.

At this point in time, I have no doubt that all kinds of pictures and information regarding me is in the hands of people and companies I don't care for. A lot of it is my own doing and some is out of my hands.

It is hard to avoid when you don't have any control over your own information because people share your pictures and your info without consulting you. All the time and without malice. It is what it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's stuff I could do, like remove tags from myself on fb (is that possible?) or delete my account, but it's enough work and enough of a loss (what if I need to find an old contact) that I just ignore the problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It sure is possible, because I untagged myself from all pictures people had tagged me on before deleting all comments I ever wrote, all pictures I ever posted myself and then deleted my Facebook after that.

For years, the only thing that kept me on Facebook was that I had a few people I only had contact with through messenger due to us being from differnet countries.

When I learned about Signal, I immediately got those people onto that app so we could stay in contact and then I went on a mass destruction rampage of my profile. Literally went from "but I have to keep it because of my connections" to "let me simulate digital dementia, bitch".

I understand that most people can't do what I did. For me it was several years of gradual detachment from the platform that made it super easy to pull the plug in the end. It's a bit harder for those who actively use fb every day for social connections and jobs and so on. So I get it.

But yeah, you can't really control whether or not people keep posting about you after you leave. I have already had that happen after visiting an old friend and honestly, I cannot bring myself to care about it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pff it's easy
Cut contact with all friends and family, get plastic surgery, live as a hermit in the mountains

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Aka living the dream

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

My dream. Get a death certificate and become invisible. Live in mountains. Raise chicken. And live a peaceful life

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's cleverly addressing a valid point. If your face is visible on the internet it can be used in an ai database without your consent. That's just where we're at.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Gosh so many real problems being solved with computers! I always knew they would be useful one day.

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