Wednesday, July 8, 2020

See Robot See


Google Allegedly Used Homeless People to Train Pixel Phone
via Data and Society Institute

I'm not even sure I understand any of this. This is without a doubt a discussion that would have been impossible to imagine twenty years ago. (Although I think the idea is that "homeless people are free.")
"Should tech companies pay more for dark-skinned subjects because they’re underrepresented in training data? If our bodies are commodities, what’s a fair price, and who should set it? The data-ownership idea is, fundamentally, limited: Even if we manage, with the help of Hughes or Yang or state legislatures, to negotiate a high price for our data, we’re still for sale.
Sidney Fussell, The Atlantic
Smart home tech can help evict renters, surveillance company tells landlords
Nov 2019, CNET

When it's 2011 and you try to think about what face recognition will be used for in the next ten years... .

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