Springer Nature retracts nearly 40 publications that trained neural networks on dataset containing images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism (www.thetransmitter.org)

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[-] bmaxv@noc.social 4 points 3 months ago

@supersquirrel I agree completely. The intent, setup, participation (including springer nature and everyone who publishes there), isn't "dumb" though.

It's malicious, evil, negligent or whatever you want to call it.

I dislike "stupid" because it leaves that room for innocent mistakes and unintentional behavior.

People didn't care for ethical standards and this is the outcome.

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