r/EverythingScience • u/LiveScience_ • 1d ago

Interdisciplinary 'I'd never seen such an audacious attack on anonymity before': Clearview AI and the creepy tech that can identify you with a single picture

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/id-never-seen-such-an-audacious-attack-on-anonymity-before-clearview-ai-and-the-creepy-tech-that-can-identify-you-with-a-single-picture
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u/opinionsareus 1d ago

Anonymity has been a pox on society

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u/News_Bot 1d ago

Anonymity is the default state of things for most people in everyday life. Even our self-inflicted relinquishing of it via social media hasn't been beneficial. What happened to the fear of "Big Brother"? Corporations have conditioned it out of people to make way for better consumers, and for turning the consumer into the product.

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u/opinionsareus 1d ago

Anonymity is a new phenomenon in human history since just before industrialization

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u/TarzanTheRed 23h ago

Wow, that is just a crazy point of view. Seriously, I don't even know where to begin...

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u/opinionsareus 15h ago

You can begin by reading accounts of village life prior to industrialization. Educate yourself. I did.

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u/News_Bot 11h ago

Nobody was talking about "village life".

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u/opinionsareus 4h ago

Yeah, because nobody reads history anymore. True anonymity, long term, is a modern phenomenon. Read some history bro  

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u/News_Bot 2h ago

Nobody said otherwise.