DIY facial recognition for porn sparks concern

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kxny7/diy-facial-recognition-for-porn-weibo

by errantspark • 7 years ago

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DerfNet• 7 years ago

His reasoning for making this program, he wrote, is “to have the right to know on both sides of the marriage.” After public outcry, he later claimed his intention was to allow women, with or without their fiancées, to check if they are on porn sites and to send a copyright takedown request.

This was going to happen one way or the other regardless; I don't understand why it's so important for the author to spin his reasoning for making it.

cr0sh• 7 years ago

The author of the tweet (and supposed ident system) or the author of the article?

I think if the latter - there was no "spin", just reporting.

But if the former - then I'd say it's because the author knows they are in the wrong, but likely doesn't care until it starts to look bad for them, thus the duplicitous pivot.

milsorgen• 7 years ago

The author of the system is completely in the right. People deserve to know who they are dealing with interpersonal matters, especially when it deal with matters of public record. Not everyone is completely gungho on feckless hedonism you know?

daenz• 7 years ago

The case of revenge-porn aside, public things are public, and making things public comes with consequences. If you are relying on the current lack of human ingenuity in connecting that public data together, you're going to be disappointed.

JohnFen8• 7 years ago

If you are relying on the current lack of human ingenuity in connecting that public data together, you're going to be disappointed.

I'm not saying that you're wrong here. However, the effect that you're describing leads directly to a dystopian world that few people would actually want to be living in, and the only thing that an individual could do about it is to withdraw from society entirely, including never going out in public.

There has to be some way of preventing that.

Joe-Z• 7 years ago

No, what he is describing should directly lead to people carefully considering what they share online. I remember 15 years ago everybody knew that, now it's "oh, I get internet points for sharing every bar/restaurant/venue I go to?! let's do that!" (this was in reference to foursquare, apparently they are not a thing anymore?)

Not posting your porn online because you're afraid someone will find out surely isn't a dystopian future.

guuhv• 7 years ago

You can't compare "withdraw from society entirely" with "don't star in pornography".

lopmotr2• 7 years ago

Acceptable behavior won't need to be hidden and attention-seekers will love everything they do being known. If the behavior really is wrong, then don't do it. If it's not wrong but your society's standards for judging people are wrong, then work to change the society, like what gay people did. Privacy for non-bad behavior is a temporary measure to allow people to practice it until everyone decides that it's not bad. But it also entrenches the societal view that it's bad! In case of behavior that really is bad, then lack of privacy is a good thing because it discourages it and protects other people from the consequences. For example, criminal and credit records.

The particular problem the author mentioned was marriage. It's a kind of fraud to fool someone into marrying you by not revealing things that they wouldn't accept about your history no matter how unreasonable their judgement is. You're taking advantage of their ignorance to gain more for yourself at their expense. A potential spouse has every right to dig into any aspect of your past that they want because committing to the wrong partner could ruin their life. It's only a good thing for them to be fully informed.

BubRoss2• 7 years ago

Whether you want it to happen or not is inconsequential, it's going to happen.

devtul• 7 years ago

If having a partner that did porn doesn't bother you, this changes nothing. On the other hand, if it does bother the person, then it enables him/her to rightfully discriminate who will be his/her partner for life.

Least I checked society still accept people to choose by their own discretion who they date.

DIY facial recognition for porn sparks concern

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