DrinkHumblyDumbly

DrinkHumblyDumbly t1_je9ktkz wrote

I’d love to explore datasets about the ecology and life in polar areas, especially of extremophiles. They’re so fascinating. What are some data sources/tutorials you’d recommend looking into for interested newbies outside of the field? And what kinds of questions can be asked/answered with these datasets?

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DrinkHumblyDumbly t1_j96jexn wrote

Yeah it seems very influential. But do u know whether there’s a privacy notice somewhere of how data are handled? I scrolled to the end of your friend’s site and skimmed through the repo/issue but couldn’t find it.

Plus, an issue was raised about license and I didn’t see any. Without a proper license and sufficiently clear usage/restrictions, these knock off sites might happen more often without anyone to take responsibility if something bad happens.

On a side note, thanks to this now I’m aware of Replicate to deploy ML tools.

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DrinkHumblyDumbly t1_j96460q wrote

I don’t know much about it, but maybe this is one of the places where encrypted computation in AI is important, which I heard there’s still quite some ongoing research and certain operations cannot be done. Tho it goes back to issues of trust, especially with black box models even if it’s open source to some extent

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DrinkHumblyDumbly t1_j962fbh wrote

Thank you for pointing that out.

I want to amend and clarify what I said. I didn’t mean that hobby projects necessarily mean they’re irresponsible, many things do start out as such and I didn’t mean to discourage that.

It’s more that hobby projects that don’t have basic information like source code, how to contact them for feedback, could be dangerous.

Esp now when the entry level to these is much lower, which is great but I think both hobbyists, developers and users should be encouraged to think more about what they putting out and/or utilizing.

For example, the training datasets could be labeled by outsourced severely underpaid/compensated workers from developing countries. When there are more hobby projects like this popping up and starting to turn into a business, it may encourage more of such controversial activities.

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DrinkHumblyDumbly t1_j94x7wa wrote

Sites like this, even as cool it it might sound, need to have very straightforward privacy policy and terms of service. Plus, who are the creators, where are the servers, … for transparency and accountability purposes.

Who’s to say this isn’t one of ClearView AI honeypot?

I’ve been seeing quite many promotions of AI sites on this subreddit and honestly, the internet can be both beautiful and dangerous at the same time. I hope the mods can help to caution people.

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