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> the system shouldn't have been made in the first place,and the mere existence of it guarantees the capability for it to be abused

I casually know the guys who made this, and they're, well, unorthodox thinkers in terms of ethics. I highly doubt that, say, government regulations would've prevented them from building this app (although it may prevent them from using it in certain regions).

It's very hard to put neural network and image recognition tools into public hands and also prevent anyone in the world from building something like this. Such is the Pandora's Box of technology.

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You can't prevent it from being built, but you can prevent people making a profit on it

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You can prevent people from making a profit on it... in the legal marketplace*, in the US/EU†.

You don't think people would pay serious crypto for access to this? Or that states with different "ethics" wouldn't pay for it?

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Oh absolutely - Considering what clearview did was replicated by a few individual researchers, I'm sure any government or private entity that wants to build s system like this has.

But I think most people here would fight against those systems once discovered, and there's no reason to allow clearview to profit now.