Watching Hong Kong news coverage repeat many of the media failings of the Arab uprisings. Everyone who wrote about cool lasers foiling AI facial recognition, for example. Flashy visuals make good stories even if they don't make sense, but the real issue is missing the real story.
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Facial recognition is part of the wider discourse surrounding the protests. It's still a big issue, just not with lasers.https://twitter.com/maryhui/status/1151030982859821056 …
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I'm old enough to remember how many academics retweeted that study about how a single modified pixel could fool a particular image recognition system.
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Seems to me like a little strategic face paint could thwart the facial recognition. But I don't know for sure.
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SRSLY. Rags covering license plates and organizers leaving out boxes of cash & t-shirts so protesters can change out of black shirts & ride subways without traceable octopus cards is the real story.
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Okay, what if it was lasers, AI, and... sharks? Would that do it?
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