From our Swindon correspondent:
Milton Friedman might have had something to say about this
Women click the “beauty” button and some AI does various things to the photo and out go the wrinkles, maybe some blotches disappear. And if you don’t do it, some other woman will and maybe she’ll get the guy clicking on her for a date instead of you.
Which brings us back to Uncle Milty. Because what he said is that the sole purpose of a business is to be the agent of the shareholders. Not social responsibility, not political parties and pressure groups, but shareholders. Sadly, Google seems to be losing this. They started as an organisation based on a search algorithm that tried to gather what people ranked highly. They didn’t ask experts, they let the algorithm decide what people liked.
Swindon’s final sentence also exactly explains the astonishing viewership malaise throughout American major-league sports.
I had to look up filtered selfies as I hadn’t a clue what this was about. Then, I’ve always put a bit of a strain on a camera lens. Perhaps I should start using them.
Didn’t have a clue either. But I’ve always thought it’d be cruel and unusual punishment to the viewer to inflict a selfie on them anyway.
I was one of the first users of Google – a crazed PhD software engineer pointed me to their beta version when Alta Vista was all I knew. The thing I vividly recall was in the “Join us” section, where they were wanting a cook. The offer was NO SALARY – but paid in stock options. In those days Google knew on which side their bread was buttered.
you mean most people dont know most images of humans, especially females on internet are probably falsified in some way ? Especially dating or hookup sites where both genders images are all fake ? Seriously, the Marching Morons has come to pass ?