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.

every time you go outside.

You guys go outside? /j

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

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

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

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

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.

Just curious, do you know even as a rough estimation (maybe via the model card) how much energy was used to train the initial model and if so how do you believe it was done so in an ecologically justifiable way?

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.

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

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.