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Re: Show Us Your Ugly Mugs
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
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A few more won't hurt.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...
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202311/ ... n-database
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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So the old first pet/street you grew up on porn-name thing again?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...
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I’d be going round Vinland, trying to sell igloo insurance to the Skraylings.
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Re: Show Us Your Ugly Mugs
Get some factor 50 slapped on that sunroof.
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Thought he had that old bike to get fixed up...and here he is swanning around Morocco.
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He may be under orders for that one.
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Back now so will be back on the spanners (and rattle cans ) over the next few days.
Straight out for a full day out on the orange bike yesterday and have to say the temperature change was a bit of a shock!
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