Project SEEN Launch Day

It is an immense pleasure and relief to finally go live with Project SEEN, after about two months nurturing it like a passion project.

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Why I made this - "curiosity"

Most looking takes. An advertiser looks at you and sees a customer. A camera looks at you and sees a data point. Even a friend, sometimes, looks at you and sees an opportunity to say something clever back...

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Why I made this - anticipatory theater

Either you don't share, because you're afraid of what happens if it's seen, or you do share, and it isn't.

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Why I made this - our panopticon society

...and that location is a data point, and that data point is worth money to someone, so it gets sold, not because you did anything, not because you opted in, but because existing with a phone in your pocket generates a byproduct, and all byproducts get monetized.

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Why I made this - the AI insanity

The uninitiated may be unaware that AI can only be trained on human data in order to emulate humanity, and lots of it. It gets this by "scraping" websites, since nearly everything on the internet was created by a human until machine learning...

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