Alex WildDec 20, 2022

Pretty fucking bold of these scientists to scrape one of my copyrighted photographs off the internet and then re-release it uncredited under a Creative Commons license because they used it for training data for an algorithm.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sample-images-of-each-class-of-the-self-created-dataset-for-early-pest-detection_fig1_366224366

Show threadFranzDec 20, 2022
@alexwild maybe be happy you contributed to better a model.
Show threadGremriel
@nero @alexwild Yeah, that's not how it works. If those 'scientists'thought the image was useful, they should have ASKED.
Dec 20, 2022 at 4:16pmWeb
Show threadRaccoon ✅Dec 20, 2022

@Gremriel @nero @alexwild The problem with asking on a project like that is that you need like, thousands upon thousands of pictures in order to constitute even a "small" dataset. They don't even have time to curate these things (a lot of porn ends up in them too), because it's not feasible for a small research team to go through each one and check.

When they want to monetize these things though, they really ought to spend the time and money to ethically source: they keep skipping that step.