The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
I like this part. Someone brought it up to this guy
A Kaggle user broached these same concerns in a comment, and Piosenka responded that he had not violated privacy restrictions because all images were publicly available, adding “how can one be more ethical than to try to foster early detection and treatment of Autism in children. You sir are way off base.”
Yeesh. “How can anyone be more ethical than what I’m doing?? Not possible.”
I like this part. Someone brought it up to this guy
Yeesh. “How can anyone be more ethical than what I’m doing?? Not possible.”
That’s embarrassing!
This is never how copyright has worked, and that’s not even talking about getting permission from the person the photo is of. 😑
Why do so many AI people think that just because you found a way to scrape something, it’s OK to use however you want?
Because one hallmark of the techbro mentality is not understanding consent