You can do positive things with Rekognition. You can do dystopian things with it, too. Get AWS to stop doing it and folks will just use GCP and Azure's similar offerings.
This is a problem that fundamentally needs government regulation to be successfully addressed.
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The NYT (and C-SPAN, apparently) uses it to identify members of Congress:
https://open.nytimes.com/how-the-new-york-times-uses-softwar...
Shutterfly is apparently using it for image categorization:
http://ir.shutterfly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/...
I uploaded about 120k photos including all my father's photos I had scanned. (about 4000)
I injured my toe when I was 10yrs old. Searched in my Google photos "toes". Found the picture pretty quickly. Have had similar success finding pictures of my childhood dogs. Can also search by people (face recognition).
It's still got a long way to go but I love it when it works.
This thread seems to be following the general logic that because Amazon is a big company that uses AI/ML, they must be using it for evil. I’ve never seen a thread on HN that accuses OpenCV of facilitating dystopia, or compares the project to selling guns to a serial killer.