Developers and technologists differ on how good and how cheap virtual reality technology will be when it’s refined. They also differ on the timeline for its improvement. Still, they seem to agree on the experience’s utility. Rather than looking at claims about how quickly this technology could come into general use, it might be worth focusing on the difficult issues society will have to grapple with as humans adopt this technology more widely. These issues fall into two main categories: ethical and social.
Attempting to detect image manipulations, forgeries, and photoshops is a popular task for machine learning and an increasingly popular pastime for people. Image manipulations are often used for fun or aesthetics, but they also mislead and misinform their viewers. Detecting and pointing out manipulations allows viewers to decide an image’s intent. And while human intuition can go a long way towards detecting manipulations, these manipulations are designed to fool us. Various algorithms have been developed to help.
WikiFaces is a known faces downloader for named entities that appear on Wikis. It is a python package that can generate self-contained datasets based on your own keywords and categories.
