This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
In the striking memo, the tech giant noted that the ethically-fraught feature should ideally be launched "during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns."
Great article. Per usual, meta is a horrible company filled with horrible people who make the decisions.
Yeah, it is pretty striking, because it hints at something much larger, such as Meta being the cause of political unrest to further it's own agenda. That is striking indeed. They should be fully investigated and dismantled in a fair and just democracy.
A couple of days ago I finished reading "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. This book really shows how awful the people at the top of Facebook are (it probably applies to other similar companies as well). And it's not that they want to be evil, it's more like they are playing a game of fame, pride and power and don't care about the consequences. It made me recall the quote about "the banality of evil".
I feel like since the book was written they've slowly slipped into willful evil. Even in the book, as time went on they got more and more comfortable doing evil rather than just not avoiding doing evil.
I'm curious what they mean by "dynamic political environment" and "other concerns".
Like I get that it's "launch a controversial thing while the people that would care are distracted". But what are we distracted by?
Something else, apparently. They would determine that in real time and launch after confirming that the other technology was facing significant backlash.
One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a central face database.
They could call it "the book of faces"
Drop the “the”
„Nobody has the intention to build a wall.“
“It will be a federated decentralized face database that lives on each users phone.”
we are not building a central face database
I honestly cannot understand why the parent company of Facebook would actually release such a parody sounding response
Who doesn't like overly specific statements?
It's a distributed database, of course.
I didn’t kill that man with a knife in the observatory.
What we're seeing is the transition to techno feudalism. Capitalism's final insult was to privatize surveillance-state authoritarianism.
What is “the Streisand effect”, Alex?
Correct!!
somewhat sure this won't fly under GDPR
though that might as weel end up in category "oh we did an oopsie haha! anyway here is our new ML model that can identify anyone! what do you mean? it doesn't store anyone's likeness you sillyy it's a just a little model"
Wow. Just wow.
Man, it's gonna be so funny when the solar storm hits
I can’t fucking wait
