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Yorick wrote: Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:53 pm Tough day today.

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I had to smile for the camera

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Or have I misunderstood the request?
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Pete Waterman?
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Christmas "jumper" day. Being sensible at work😂
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I have a Halo :D
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Pre pub in my new glasses. Lock up your barmaids! 8-) 😁

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Taipan wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:39 pm Pre pub in my new glasses. Lock up your barmaids! 8-) 😁

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Taipan wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:39 pm Pre pub in my new glasses. Lock up your barmaids! 8-) 😁

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KungFooBob wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 10:31 am Pete Waterman?
I thought Louis Walsh after an extended period of binge eating. 🤣
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I am a Viking! 8-)

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I have a suspicion that this 'I'm a Viking' thing that's all the rage with my friends on social media is simply a means to cheaply and easily harvest tons of likenesses for facial recognition projects...
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It's like that "post a pic of yourself 10 years ago and now" thing innit? Not at all useful for someone trying to make AI tools which can age photos :think:
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mangocrazy wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2024 5:21 pm I have a suspicion that is simply a means to cheaply and easily harvest tons of likenesses for facial recognition projects...
A few more won't hurt.

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Nov 2023

Clearview AI’s reference database for facial recognition searches has surpassed 40 billion images, double its volume of just 20 months ago.

The milestone was revealed in a Time article
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Taipan wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2024 5:03 pm I am a Viking! 8-)

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mangocrazy wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2024 5:21 pm I have a suspicion that this 'I'm a Viking' thing that's all the rage with my friends on social media is simply a means to cheaply and easily harvest tons of likenesses for facial recognition projects...
So the old first pet/street you grew up on porn-name thing again?
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Taipan wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2024 5:03 pm I am a Viking! 8-)

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I tried that and I looked like the first Viking spiv.
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JackyJoll wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2024 8:20 pm
Taipan wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2024 5:03 pm I am a Viking! 8-)

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I tried that and I looked like the first Viking spiv.
Ragnar the Spiv! Sounds very marauding!
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I’d be going round Vinland, trying to sell igloo insurance to the Skraylings.
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JackyJoll wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:01 pm I’d be going round Vinland, trying to sell igloo insurance to the Skraylings.
Pah! I'm pillaging Poundland. 8-)
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