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IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it

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Re: IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it

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Post by cjbgkagh »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #5
paxys wrote: post #4

Who the hell is signing a large contract with IBM and expecting them to deliver working tech? > IBM signed a $69.8 million (£54.7 million) contract with the British government Ah, just good old fashioned grift. Nothing to be concerned about. The money is being spent on executive bonuses and government official kickbacks, not developing facial recognition.

I despise IBM but how is that grift?

The UK routinely buys software that doesn’t work for large amounts of money. The only reasonable explanation is corruption.

Re: IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it

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Post by seydor »

gumballindie wrote: post #10
seydor wrote: post #3

I think it s impossible to hold off the oncoming onslaught of Big State powered by AI , but i think we are doing a very bad job of telling the public to prepare for it, starting with AI powered online manipulation

Just tell folks on the right that ai is going to take their rights, freedoms and guns and let them run with it. I am not joking, the only way to "wake" people up is to leverage those that, oddly enough, have predicted many of the upcoming changes. The issues with their conspiracy theories are with the how, whom, and why. There's no cabal of folks injecting people with microcips to control them and covid wasn't it. It…

that's not a bad idea

Re: IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it

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Post by seydor »

JohnFen wrote: post #6
seydor wrote: post #3

I think it s impossible to hold off the oncoming onslaught of Big State powered by AI , but i think we are doing a very bad job of telling the public to prepare for it, starting with AI powered online manipulation

I'd like to prepare for it. How?

You 're probably in tech so you already know. But the public isn't even aware how easy it is to e.g. copy someone's voice with AI. The mainstream news are uninterested

Re: IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it

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Post by gumballindie »

JohnFen wrote: post #6
seydor wrote: post #3

I think it s impossible to hold off the oncoming onslaught of Big State powered by AI , but i think we are doing a very bad job of telling the public to prepare for it, starting with AI powered online manipulation

I'd like to prepare for it. How?

Ok, I'll say it.

I am actively moving away from any type of serveillance device and software, where possible of course. Moved away from the data scraping OS made by windows to linux. De google, de apple, and spread the word. There may not be much we can do against the sheer amount of public surveillance we enjoy, a level that makes the STASI and KGB pale in comparison, other than voting voting and voting. Protesting and vandalism would only ridicule any attempt.

Oh and I feel that there may also be a market for people that want an online presence but in a protected way. So starting businesses around that may also help. Nothing fancy. Just simple stuff such as not tracking users and not manipulating them. Requires avoiding venture capital, and that's fine. No point in being a paper millionaire with no life anyway.

Re: IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it

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Post by gumballindie »

seydor wrote: post #14
gumballindie wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just tell folks on the right that ai is going to take their rights, freedoms and guns and let them run with it. I am not joking, the only way to "wake" people up is to leverage those that, oddly enough, have predicted many of the upcoming changes. The issues with their conspiracy theories are with the how, whom, and why. There's no cabal of folks injecting people with microcips to control them and covid wasn't it. It…

that's not a bad idea

The more I think the more I realise that some of those people's hearts are in the right place. And the amusing part is that I am starting to realise that a lot of the surveillance tech was developed under either left and right governments and politicians. Thus we can find common ground. The enemy of enemy and all that :-)

Re: IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it

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Post by JohnFen »

seydor wrote: post #15
JohnFen wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd like to prepare for it. How?

You 're probably in tech so you already know. But the public isn't even aware how easy it is to e.g. copy someone's voice with AI. The mainstream news are uninterested

Yes, I already know about the increased use of facial recognition. But you said that we're doing a bad job of telling people how to prepare for it.

I don't know how to prepare for it, though. What should I be doing, and what should I be telling others to do?

Re: IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it

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Post by seydor »

JohnFen wrote: post #18
seydor wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You 're probably in tech so you already know. But the public isn't even aware how easy it is to e.g. copy someone's voice with AI. The mainstream news are uninterested

Yes, I already know about the increased use of facial recognition. But you said that we're doing a bad job of telling people how to prepare for it. I don't know how to prepare for it, though. What should I be doing, and what should I be telling others to do?

Tell them what is possible

Re: IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it

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Post by gumballindie »

seydor wrote: post #15
JohnFen wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd like to prepare for it. How?

You 're probably in tech so you already know. But the public isn't even aware how easy it is to e.g. copy someone's voice with AI. The mainstream news are uninterested

> But the public isn't even aware how easy it is to e.g. copy someone's voice with AI.

I always demo it where people are open to it, I show them how it can used to steal their banking data (that has been the case already for many years), explain how everything they do is tracked (to those a little bit savy i show them the "hidden" tracking pixels here and there), I demo how people can talk about certain topics or search on site A and then similar content is shown on site B, and so on.

Spread the word, demo, explain, educate.

The mainstream is interested but they don't know how it works. They imagine cabals of people in secret dark chambers when in fact it was product managers in daily standups planning and delivering all this and an all too open to corruption politicians happy to keep the maases obedient and numb.

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