Which makes Google photos part of the systems described. See also: https://
theintercept.com/2024/04/05/goo
gle-photos-israel-gaza-facial-recognition/
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Google Photos facial recognition systems in Israel-Gaza conflict
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Mapping Systems Accountability Beyond Bias Mitigation Attempts
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Yes, I agree. And these systems will always be thus. AND knowing more about these systems, reporting on them, mapping the details, let's us connect chains of culpability, which is worth doing and shouldn't be conflated with attempt to e.g. 'de-bias the slaughter system'
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Advertising and Consumer Manipulation in American Society
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's Selling the American People! Which I was reminded to pull to the top of the stack c/o this excellent episode of TMK: https://
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Personal Role in No Tech Apartheid Movement Advocacy
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To be precise, I played a small role a long time ago. The people at @NoTechApartheid are the ones bravely carrying it forward now.
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Mapping AI Technology Used in Gaza: Corporate Accountability
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Why is it important to map the tech used to facilitate slaughter in Gaza & link it back to the companies/people who contributed? It's not because these systems matter, in a vacuum. It's because we MUST ensure that "AI" is not used to facilitate computational escape from
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Companies Accountability: Calling Out Tech Enablers
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You and I have talked about this, Peter, and I'm glad to see these statements. They are certainly something, and that is better than nothing! AND I still defer to the people/orgs who've put themselves on the line to call out the companies, call out the enablers, to do what they
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AI Startups Are Just Cloud Companies in Disguise
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"AI startups" are just three cloud companies in a trench coat pass it on
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AI Targeting System Lavender: Machine Learning Military Application
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Yes, the book written by the commander of the unit that runs Lavender (etc.), a book that "offers a short guide to building a “target machine,” similar in description to Lavender, based on AI and machine-learning algorithms." Whose description then matches what he discusses in
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AI surveillance systems ethics and targeted profiling concerns
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Yes, exactly. And thus these listening practices need to be included as part of 'the system'. As does whatever surveillance is then applied to determine whether N person can be characterized, marked for death, based on said features.
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Cloud Infrastructure Requirements for Advanced AI Systems
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Yes, I'm not saying Lavender is demanding, necessarily. I'm saying the infra feeding Lavender (or whatever) the "The more information, and the more variety, the better," that it's informed with, that is used to shape such features, is likely to be cloud hosted.