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> You can do positive things with Rekognition.

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I’ve recently worked on an app that uses it for an entirely harmless image classification feature.

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.

There’s a healthy debate to be had about the risks of facial recognition, but I don’t think that it gets inherently worse when a company like Amazon streamlines the process. This particular technology is out of the bag.

[Citation provided]

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 use Google Photo's image recognition all the time. I wish it was 1000x better but it's still amazing.

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.

Amazon Rekognition helps Marinus Analytics fight human trafficking http://www.marinusanalytics.com/articles/2017/10/17/amazon-r...

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