Image detection is theft. It is either stealing compute cycles or network bandwidth.
If you work for a company advancing this technology you are evil and should rethink your life choices.
If you work for a company advancing this technology you are evil and should rethink your life choices.
(Your second paragraph allows for no context or nuance and is just completely unnecessary.)
A person's expectations and rights relating to a discussion on a public forum are nothing like those relating to a device you own.
GP's "pretty hot take" is correct.
I don’t think my “rights” related to accessing my OS software is much different than my rights related to accessing discussion forum software.
Seems pretty apples to apples to me.
(I don’t like image scanning, and I don’t like wasted brain cycles, if that matters)
Before buying the device? Sure, if you want. You would be aware that those wasted cycles and wasted network traffic are part of the price.
But what about the rest of us who aren't like you, who bought the device without knowing before hand that this theft would take place?