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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Oh yay my corporate job Iāve been at for close to a decade just decided that all employees need to be āverifiedā by an AI startupās phone app for reasons: https://www.veriff.com/ Ugh Iād rather have random drug tests.
Am I understanding this right: this app takes a picture of your ID card or passport and the feeds it to some ML algorithm to figure out whether the document is real plus some additional stuff like address verification?
Depending on where youāre located, you might try and file a GDPR complaint against this. Iām not a lawyer but I work with the DSO for our company and routinely piss off people by raising concerns about whatever stupid tool marketing or BI tried to implement without asking anyone, and I think unless you work somewhere that falls under one of the exceptions for GDPR art. 5 Ā§1 you have a pretty good case there because that request seems definitely excessive and not strictly necessary.
They advertise a stunning 95% success rate! Since it has a 9 and a 5 in the number itās probably as good as five nines. No word on what the success rate is for transgender people or other minorities though.
As for the algorithm: they advertise āAIā and āreinforced learningā, but that could mean anything from good old fashioned Computer Vision with some ML dust sprinkled on top, to feeding a diffusion model a pair of images and asking it if theyāre the same person. The company has been around since before the Chat-GPT hype wave.
Given thaty wife interviewed with a ādigital AI assistantā company for the position of, effectively, the digital AI assistant well before the current bubble really took off, I would not be at all surprised if they kept a few wage-earners on staff to handle more inconclusive checks.
I donāt see the point of this app/service. Why canāt someone who is trusted at the company (like HR) just check ID manually? I understand it might be tough if everyone is fully remote but donāt public notaries offer this kind of service?
Notaries? Pah! Theyāre not even web scale. Now AI, now thatās web scale.
we have worldcoin at home
whatās the point, then?
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