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Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Surveillance tech CEO Dan Heinen says "It's not my job to play the ethics game" regarding the (ab)use of his product.

Right, and as the great Tom Lehrer sang: "'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun."

https://www.404media.co/lapd-eyes-geospy-an-ai-tool-that-can-geolocate-photos-in-seconds/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

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Leeloo
@leeloo@chaosfem.tw replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
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Another quote from the same song:

"Nazi - schmazi" says Wehrner von Braun.

And while we are at it, the rockets in the quote were the V2 rockets the Germand used to bomb London in World War 2.

(in case anyone failed to realise where that puts said CEO).

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marcink
@marcink@stolat.town replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@dangillmor “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” (Upton Sinclair)
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Ra
@Ra@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@dangillmor Still waiting for #lazyweb to get back me on how to hardcode the EXIF of my pics with the geolocation of the #whitehouse
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Bolt
@boltx@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@dangillmor "It's not my job to play the ethics game" says CEO of Orphancrushingmachines LLC, builder of orphan crushing machines.

"I have full faith in the American people to decide who to elect and what to vote on.”

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Aiono
@aiono@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@dangillmor am I the only one who finds it weird that it takes someone to pay to you for them to care about ethics?
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Bryan Bell
@bbell@mstdn.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@dangillmor does it use metadata? Or does the AI just figure out the location based on the actual image?
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Hyacin
@hyacin@social.linux.pizza replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@dangillmor But at the same time, he's not actually wrong, right? As a CEO it _should_ be part of his job, but the reality is, in this horrible system in which we live, his job is only to increase profits, drive up share prices, and make executives and shareholders wealthier.
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VulcanTourist
@VulcanTourist@autistics.life replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@dangillmor

> "It's not my job to play the ethics game"

Spoken like a proud capitalist sociopath.

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Dane Deasy
@danedeasy@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@dangillmor where is Luigi when ya need him?
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tlariv@mastodon.cloud
@tlariv@mastodon.cloud replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@dangillmor
Und I'm learning Chinese
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W6KME
@W6KME@mastodon.radio replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@dangillmor ""It's not my job to play the ethics game" is one of those sentences up there with "the innocent have nothing to fear".

Let's phrase it more directly..."Yes, it's unethical as hell and I don't give a damn. And I also don't care that you know it's wrong, and that you know *I* know it's wrong."

It's pure contempt.

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