The guy who made a tool to track women in porn videos is sorry

Post by 0xedb » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 11:30 AM UTC

Post by otabdeveloper1 » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 1:17 PM UTC

bem94 wrote: post #2

It's things like this that make me think all engineers need more training on the social consequences of the tools they build. This is an extreme case and I hope most engineers would look at this and understand how awful & damaging it could be; but given our influence on the world nowadays (as a class, if not always as individuals) we really need to be much more aware of what we're doing and how it affects people.

Post by xwdv » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 1:19 PM UTC

bem94 wrote: post #2

It's things like this that make me think all engineers need more training on the social consequences of the tools they build. This is an extreme case and I hope most engineers would look at this and understand how awful & damaging it could be; but given our influence on the world nowadays (as a class, if not always as individuals) we really need to be much more aware of what we're doing and how it affects people.

Post by julienreszka » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 1:33 PM UTC

thrower123 wrote: post #6

jonnycomputer wrote: post #4

I'm not sure I understand the GDPR argument here. Is collecting the facial information from actors and actresses in porn movies illegal? Or was it the access of their social media accounts? Why is the tallying of what is publicly consumable a violation of GDPR?

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Post by whenchamenia » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 1:39 PM UTC

xwdv wrote: post #5

bem94 wrote: post #2

It's things like this that make me think all engineers need more training on the social consequences of the tools they build. This is an extreme case and I hope most engineers would look at this and understand how awful & damaging it could be; but given our influence on the world nowadays (as a class, if not always as individuals) we really need to be much more aware of what we're doing and how it affects people.

The problem is that engineers are not always the ones in charge of the entire end result. If you want to do something unethical you can just split it up into harmless individual tasks and give it to a dozen engineers and then put it all together. It’s obfuscation. Some of the greatest atrocities we will see in tech (and we will see them) in the coming century will be the result of combining things created with good i…