Your criticism seems somewhat misplaced. An open-source facial recognition library enables the peasants to wield the same tools that the monarchs already have at their disposal. The cat is out of the bag, and there’s no putting it back.
We can ban the stuff until such time when we truly need it.
Doesn’t help with the climate crisis? No. Does it help with any of the ongoing health threats? No. Does it help hungry people finding food and healthcare or somehow advancing science or any cultural benefits? No.
Does it consume vast amounts of water and electricity to facilitate “bad example of humanity” use cases? Oh yes.
Just feel our priorities are not where they should be.
So we as humanity should stop all actions that are not directly solving the worlds largest problems (at least if there might be slightly negative side effects)?
And what’s up with the energy and water consumption argument. I accept this for LLMs maybe, but not for a local python script that runs on consumer hardware. Should we stop playing video games, too?
