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<blockquote data-quote="balybary" data-source="post: 1152660" data-attributes="member: 12397">The creator of the apps has written a short article about the story of MakeApp.I have just skimmed this article.<a href="https://hackernoon.com/media-tried-to-trample-us-but-only-helped-us-reach-out-to-1-000-000-users-and-make-money-fb39a90fd0fa" target="_blank">https://hackernoon.com/media-tried-to-trample-us-but-only-helped-us-reach-out-to-1-000-000-users-and-make-money-fb39a90fd0fa</a>He said that:The team has developped an apps that puts make up on the face. The apps uses an artificial neural networks, and the team realizes afterwards that the AI can works in the other way by removing make up.All the Russian team members voted in favor of launching this experiment. Only one team member, a US citizen, was against it. He argued that the US media would dismiss this feature and accuse them of sexism.They launch the apps and some Fake News outlets accuse them of being russian agents (you can't make that shit up).:facepalm2:All publicity is good publicity in the apps world, so they raked thousands of dollars thanks to the Fake News. Meanwhile most of the shitty journalists live in poverty. The shitty journalists will soon become replaced by AI by the way.:highfive:</blockquote>

[QUOTE="balybary, post: 1152660, member: 12397"] The creator of the apps has written a short article about the story of MakeApp. I have just skimmed this article. [URL]https://hackernoon.com/media-tried-to-trample-us-but-only-helped-us-reach-out-to-1-000-000-users-and-make-money-fb39a90fd0fa[/URL] He said that: The team has developped an apps that puts make up on the face. The apps uses an[b] artificial neural networks[/b], and the team realizes afterwards that the AI can works in the other way by removing make up. All the Russian team members voted in favor of launching this experiment.[b] Only one team member, a US citizen, was against it.[/b] He argued that the US media would dismiss this feature and accuse them of sexism. They launch the apps and some Fake News outlets accuse them [b]of being russian agents[/b] (you can't make that shit up). :facepalm2: All publicity is good publicity in the apps world, so they raked thousands of dollars thanks to the Fake News. Meanwhile most of the shitty journalists live in poverty. The shitty journalists will soon become replaced by AI by the way. :highfive: [/QUOTE]

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