Feel-good bullshit: Instead of machine vision, "save refugees" app asks users to look at empty images of the oceanhttp://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tech-gaming/i-sea-the-app-helping-to-discover-and-rescue-refugees-in-the-mediterranean-a3273841.html …
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Tried it, the app is completely non-functional. It's a marketing stunt for the developer to get press articles.pic.twitter.com/SubRotl5A3
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Now I'm rewarding the idiot who wrote this press release news article with page views. *signs off* (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
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Looks like HuffPo fell for the scam, or wanted the clicks, or both since their writers aren't paid so who even carespic.twitter.com/hr07owWqpT
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The point of the articles isn't even to get people to use the app, it's to make readers feel better that other people are doing something.
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Normally I wait until Monday to remember everything is a lie and rant about it to disinterested nerds who clicked a Follow button one time.
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The app even has a fake weather reading to make users think they're getting live images from a satellite. I'm done.pic.twitter.com/z3WCxc3Ik4
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