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Re: AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU

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Post by jorisboris » Sun, Feb 09, 2025, 11:28 AM UTC

mh- wrote: post #377

jorisboris wrote: post #230

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I once tried building a Macbook app which lowers my music volume when I'm not smiling, to try to stimulate more happy emotions (forcing yourself to smile induces happy feelings) Then I started thinking how this could be used in restaurants to see if waiters smile to the people they are serving Or in customer service (you can actually hear it when people smile on the phone) Then I realised that this kind of tech would…

This is an interesting idea (the first one..) and I suspect it'd be quite easy to build now. Someone posted a web app recently that reminds you to blink (iff you don't), and it was incredibly accurate for me, running fully in the browser.

I believe the challenge was to access the volume settings from a browser web page (I wanted it to be a web app)

Not sure if that’s solved

Re: AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU

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Post by metalman » Sun, Feb 09, 2025, 11:57 AM UTC

xp84 wrote: post #416

verzali wrote: post #317

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I will be honest, I am always very skeptical of these claims that the big tech companies are fine but small business is hurting. Many of them seem to originate with the big tech companies themselves and I highly doubt they really have the interests of small business in mind. Plus, I'm old enough to remember when everyone claimed EU tech law was about to ban memes, which didn't happen...

You can be skeptical but I’ve worked at multiple small businesses since GDPR and CCPA came to be, and each of them has zero interest in “selling your data” - everyone just wants to run ads and track which ones work. And yet complying with GDPR has been onerous and costly in every one of them. And did nothing to benefit our customers or website visitors. The only winners are the lawyers and firms that specialize in se…

zackly right. two words ,in this case "unacceptable risk", which is absolutely impossible to define, so then, ha ha!, there needs to be deciders, whole heaping flocks of deciders, who them imediatly throw up a paper screen of "privacy concerns", and with luck the holey grail of beurocrats "national security" and then they can get to work destroying there budget, so they can seek further grants, and invent internal auditing procedures that have ancient bizantines crawling from there graves to see such wonders. smaller sub beurocracys can be built on one word, such as "saftey", and of course there is no upper limit, but two well placed words, and zam!, your in!

Re: AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU

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Post by throwaway743 » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 11:08 PM UTC

dingnuts wrote: post #132

throwaway743 wrote: post #109

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I trained a CV model to tell me the temp when I stand in front of the mirror based on if my nipples are hard or not, and how hard or soft they are.

if you set up your thermostat to respond to the output from your model you could get it to turn up the temperature by pinching your nipples

That's fucking brilliant!

Re: AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU

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Post by throwaway743 » Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 11:09 PM UTC

moi2388 wrote: post #191

throwaway743 wrote: post #109

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I trained a CV model to tell me the temp when I stand in front of the mirror based on if my nipples are hard or not, and how hard or soft they are.

Ah, it detects if it’s a bit nippy? ;)

I like your thinking B)