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Re: They see your photos

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Post by JimDabell »

internetter wrote: post #27
autoexec wrote: post #10

These are the obvious things they can see in the photos. Not shown are the various assumptions they'll make about you based on your photos such as: gay, likely uneducated, high income earner, most likely republican, narcissistic, etc. Also not shown is what they'll learn by the totality of the data they collect from your pictures such as how often you go on vacation, how often you're seen in new clothing and what kin…

> Not shown are the various assumptions they'll make about you based on your photos such as: gay, likely uneducated, high income earner, most likely republican, narcissistic, etc. I uploaded a photo of myself as a child and based on the house in the background, the brand of shoes on my feet, and the clothes my dad was wearing, it flagged me as “middle class”, so at least one part of your claim is incorrect. I suspect…

I uploaded a race photo and it said that I appeared economically comfortable because I was wearing running gear like a hydration pack.

Re: They see your photos

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Post by mixmastamyk »

gnopgnip wrote: post #19
autoexec wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you checked the privacy policy of your photo lab/printer? It's possible that they're collecting digital copies of your pictures, selling them (or just information about them) to third parties, as well as selling them/turning them over to the police and other government agencies.

Which ones do those things?

Almost* all of them. At the very least its worth hoarding until an opportunity comes up.

[*] Reduced from all.

Re: They see your photos

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Post by geor9e »

pyinstallwoes wrote: post #29
geor9e wrote: post #26

Are machine learning image classifiers new to people? I don't get what's controversial here. How did people think they were searching their photos apps for beach and dog and getting automatic albums this whole time. Am I missing the point of this post/website?

Most people don’t even know what machine learning even means or is.

Oh wait it's an ad.

Re: They see your photos

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Post by cerved »

pyinstallwoes wrote: post #29
geor9e wrote: post #26

Are machine learning image classifiers new to people? I don't get what's controversial here. How did people think they were searching their photos apps for beach and dog and getting automatic albums this whole time. Am I missing the point of this post/website?

Most people don’t even know what machine learning even means or is.

I know! It does AI!!

Re: They see your photos

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Post by downWidOutaFite »

BadHumans wrote: post #15
01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why it would be nice for democracy to work and give us some enforced regulations

I agree fully but I'm going to play devil's advocate and say the person who just won the election won the popular vote so whatever you are about to get is democracy in action because the majority of people voted for what is about to happen.

No it isn't. A democracy only works with informed voters. The amount of lies and obfuscation spewed by Trump's campaign is a successful attempt to deliberately break democracy. They don't have a mandate to do much besides mass deportation because they didn't talk about firing the entire federal workforce during the campaign. Project 2025 does talk about that but Trump lied during the campaign and said he disavowed it.

I think oligarch Peter Thiel gave away the game in this clip at 3:26 where he says "you can make pro Trump arguments but that's the democratic question"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luTHVKFi3dc&t=3m24s

Re: They see your photos

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Post by nostrademons »

autoexec wrote: post #10

These are the obvious things they can see in the photos. Not shown are the various assumptions they'll make about you based on your photos such as: gay, likely uneducated, high income earner, most likely republican, narcissistic, etc. Also not shown is what they'll learn by the totality of the data they collect from your pictures such as how often you go on vacation, how often you're seen in new clothing and what kin…

Do you do any ML for Big Tech? Because it's actually a lot simpler than that: the input is the sum total of your activity, and the output is the likelihood that you'll click on an ad or buy a product on a specific surface. You certainly can predict demographic information like sexual orientation, education level, income, political party, and with a fair degree of accuracy, but all it does is add noise to the calculation you really want, which is optimizing the amount of money you'll make. To the extent that demographics are computed, it's to make advertisers feel better about themselves. They would almost always be better off with a blanket "optimize my sales" campaign, but it's hard for ad agencies and digital marketers to justify their existence that way.

Re: They see your photos

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

This is really cool. I posted a photo of what I think was my great grandparents into it and it explained their circumstances in fascinating ways (to the point of mentioning aged clothing, a detailed I overlooked).

I’ve been trying to figure out how to process hundreds of my own scanned photos to determine any context about them. This was convincing enough for me to consider google’s vision API. No way I’d ever trust OpenAI’s apis for this.

Edit: can anybody recommend how to get similar text results (prompt or processing pipeline to prompt)?

Re: They see your photos

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Post by zitterbewegung »

IshKebab wrote: post #21

This is just an ad for their photo service. Which presumably has terrible search features, if it doesn't use AI to analyse them. That's one of the best features in Google Photos!

It is a weird advertisement when Ente (the name of the service) will also see your photos.

Re: They see your photos

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Post by duxup »

The few I tried were pretty unimpressive. It felt like elementary deduction with a lot of filler words and few facts… and straight up bad information.
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