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arijun 6 hours ago

That’s the app. Or vision-impaired, at least.

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nonethewiser 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But in practice it could just be anyone whose outsourcing vision right? It's basically a free manual vision service.

arijun 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There would have to be a person pretending to be blind on the other side of the phone call, recording your answers. At that point is it not just easier to have that person do the labeling themselves?

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agmater 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Thank you for joining the Be My Eyes community! Be My Eyes connects blind and low-vision users with volunteers who can provide visual interpretation of smartphone images, to companies that provide them with services or employ them, and to artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools that analyze and describe images submitted by our users.

I thought you were being cynical, but yeah the ToS basically says that as well.

Faaak 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In practice, it's also to help vision impaired people

foobiekr 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you implying that it might be exploited by unethical tech bros looking to build data sets?

Tagbert 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It is a very manual process and would probably be an inefficient way to collect that data.