• zout
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    13 days ago

    I read earlier “someone” were a couple of college students.

    • Seraph
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      33 days ago

      It’s literally the first line of the article you guys, fucking read it instead of speculating:

      A pair of students at Harvard have built…

      • @[email protected]
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        2 days ago

        Whoosh

        Edit: My point was that a couple of kids doing this on a small scale pales in comparison to Meta’s reach. The students didn’t do anything particularly novel, and Meta, which has a much more comprehensive dataset of faces linked to personal information, personal communications, etc, is already using every means available to do the same thing. The college students simply demonstrated what Meta is already doing on a global scale.