"Like so many applications of AI, this new power is likely to be a double-edged sword: It may help people identify the locations of old snapshots from relatives, or allow field biologists to conduct rapid surveys of entire regions for invasive plant species, to name but a few of many likely beneficial applications.

“But it also could be used to expose information about individuals that they never intended to share, says Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union who studies technology. Stanley worries that similar technology, which he feels will almost certainly become widely available, could be used for government surveillance, corporate tracking or even stalking.”

  • DessertStorms
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    1011 months ago

    If you want jerk off material just use the internet like the rest of us.

    The kind of thing this can be used for is about ten stages past jerking off, and in to stalker territory. So a person already using the internet for jerking off can now pinpoint exactly where the person they’re jerking off to lives, and potentially turn up at their house, and escalate from there. This is beyond just creepy (and exploitative, in the case of corporations using the info), it’s potentially putting lives at risk.

    • @afraid_of_zombies
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      011 months ago

      Ok I don’t know what I am supposed to do about that. Let’s just work on the problem we can solve for now.

      • DessertStorms
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        411 months ago

        I never asked you to do anything? just pointing out things are much more serious than your comment makes out. I also don’t see how what you said is a problem we can solve now and it’s ok to focus on, but what I added somehow isn’t…