Comment by lakfha | Hacker News Reader

Comment by lakfha | Hacker News Reader

So you can track "objects" like people in a shopping mall and they are releasing it as a commoditized complement.

What are possible scenarios?

1) Advertisers build tracking systems in supermarkets and malls and Facebook sells them the profiles of the victims.

2) Facebook is getting people hooked on the "free" models but will later release a better and fully closed model with tracking software so advertisers have to purchase both profiles and the software.

3) Facebook releases the model in order to create goodwill among (a subset of) the developer population and normalize tracking. The subset of developers will also act as useful idiots in the EU and promote tracking and corporate power.

Tracking objects is a different task from segmentation, whatever you are describing doesn't need what Facebook released today. In AI a lot of things are overlapping and some stuff that they have been releasing has no direct use for them.

Segmentation is helpful in creative applications, think of video editors that can segment the objects in the video and replace the background etc. Green screen type of thing.

It's a closely related task. This seems capable of at least some tracking.

Wouldn't it be easier to achieve these nefarious goals if it's was a closed model that only few actors know about and have access to? Do you think such models not yet exist or deployed?

If you want to look for something behind what Facebook doing now then it's pretty clear they damaging a moat of their competitors like Google and Microsoft (AI.com).

Meta competitors dump shitloads of money on GPUs and running their cloud AIs. When Meta releasing open models in wild where everyone and their cat can run them it's only make this arm race more expensive for proprietary AI offerings.

It's (still) for the metaverse even when people say it has flopped, this is directly for that aim.

Tracking of everything via live camera vision

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