This program from Australian radio examines the role of photography in the development of machine learning models. Interestingly, of greatest value to data scientists is found not in the work of professional or artistic photographers, but in images taken of whatever is in view of the camera as one goes about daily activities, then uploaded to the Web by the thousand. Indeed, a photographer who did exactly this is credited for his substantial, though unwitting, contributions to AI.
As a blind person, I expect to benefit from advances in computer vision and image analysis. Nevertheless, I wish the providers of the data were better compensated and properly acknowledged. I don't think copyright law is the right vehicle for this, but that's a separate issue.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/the-future-of-photography-under-ai-ballarat-foto/102960408
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