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TIL that AliExpress has an image search, you can just paste an image into the search box
@joepie91 would that be an ethical use case for deep neutral net based machine learning?
Assume it's implemented as an Image to text model followed by search. Its energy usage is, I think, upper bounded by whatever AliExpress is earning on one sale. It is not replacing human work. It can help people who don't know the necessary search terms.
There might be a mistake in my energy considerations, my brain is foggy today.
Also training data not stolen, but just the listings they have anyway.