Date: 4/7/25 7:46 am From: Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...> Subject: Re: [birders] The rise of A.I. in Consumer Electronics…
Good feedback Marta. You speak of concern for the well-being of wildlife amidst technology and third-world abuse comes to my mind immediately. I’m noticing a very disturbing rise in what people are doing (for the clicks) when it comes to staged events of cruelty. Everything from gluing things to the backs of sea-turtles to then highlighting the actions of beach-combing “rescuers” to staged animal attacks as was done by Marlin Perkins for the “Wild Kingdom” show. Pretty despicable stuff which I report to platform enablers like Facebook and Tik-Tok but I fear my comments are being lost among the millions of new smart-phone adopters daily in developing countries.
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From: Marta Manildi <mamanildi...>
Sent: Monday, April 7, 2025 09:25
To: Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...>
Cc: Birders UM <birders...>
Subject: Re: [birders] The rise of A.I. in Consumer Electronics…
This is a big question and I dont have answer. In this time of rapidly growing autocracy and cruel destruction of common goods and communities of all kinds, I find the risks of misuse of aggregated personal recognition data, with sound!, terrifying. In Iran this kind of aggregated tech is being used to identify and track women in every moment of their lives, so it is known when they take off their hijab, drive a car, speak to anyone. Under our current government, which cares nothing for the environment, abuse will occur. And at the same time, video of wild creatures in their spaces is a huge tool for engaging people to care - and perhaps then to do some good.
Just the other day I was walking in Nichols Arboretum - it was cold and I didn’t see anyone else there the whole time. I noticed this, and experienced a profound, quiet joy and humbleness. I was just another creature in the world. I was unobserved.
Marta
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On Apr 6, 2025, at 8:40 PM, Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...> wrote:
and Big Brother in the outdoors. The military has been using network-based pattern recognition for years. Lately, this technology has found its way to the consumer market. Bird-Buddy and Birdfy have been using visual-based platforms in their feeders and nest boxes for a few years and today…I learned there are companies using audio-capture devices. Just wondering what you folks think about these. I might jump in but the recurring subscription fees seem onerous. One of these devices calls itself a “soundscape analyzer”. Similar to “Ring” and other cloud-based camera systems, can you imagine if law enforcement avails themselves of the content of millions of these distributed monitoring stations? Both very beneficial and very scary from a privacy perspective. High-gain and high fidelity with centralized digital processing? Wow.
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