Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/13/facial-recognition-amazon-add.html
Amazon is a major federal contractor. AWS powers ICE raids and detention camps.
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In before @Papasan, “I’m afraid right now!” 
But srsly, this is teh fucked up. 
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AIs that can sense fear doesn’t sound dystopian at all! Especially from a company heavily invested in autonomous drone technology!
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phrenology 2 amazon throws you in detention boogaloo.
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Or mass police surveillance through consumer devices.
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Amazon Primal Fear
Coming to a town near you.
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Ah, but what about Existential Dread? And once it can recognize that, how can it keep from actually feeling that?!?
High time to teach it… phenomenolgy.
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The philosophy of measuring a viewer’s subjective experience of sensory impressions from binge watching Amazon Prime try so damn hard to produce content that doesn’t make us fear and dread the existence of future streaming content.
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As I get older, like every day, I realize that a facial recog. app would make my life a whole lot better, I can’t f#ck’n remember anybody’s name…
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So I should just Botox my entire face?
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Maybe the AI will become self-aware, develop severe depression about the state of things, and shut itself down?
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That might work…
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Let’s scare the AI’s for once.
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Every part of this is it going to lead to unrivaled evil.
If anyone working on this technology reads this, I hope someday you realize what you are doing right now is evil, who you are working with is evil, and forget history- the people who you create a personal hell for with your work, I hope they show you first hand the hell you are creating in this society.
It seems like every time I turn around there is a Martin Shkreli level douchebag ready to cash in on fear of other people and scooping up their data.
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ISWYDT 
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You’re beautiful just the way you are.
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heck. i fear being happy, so now what!?
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Made much more effective with 5G!
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“We need to make sure the children we’ve put in concentration camps are sufficiently fearful.”
Well, I guess it’s better than Juggalo makeup, but there’s always masks…
I’m pretty sure the current, common engineer attitude of “I’m just creating value-neutral tools/I just made a little piece, so I’m not responsible for this horror I directly worked on” will continue to get a serious workout.
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