This. Im a dick and straight up demand people exclude me or stop filming. Consumers are ravenous for money making content and have no clue what a media business privacy, consent, and compensation legal framework even remotely look like. As someone who produced a few short documentaries in the early 2000s related to "hobbies", I would have never done so without full consent and compensation...
So research is also now a race to the bottom? Come join me at my private research coop, where we emphasize quality over quantity and don't give a shit about whats perceived as cool...
"Taste" is developed. If you have to stop and ask, you are not there yet. In the arts, artist that drive taste quietly observe and hone that in over many years, releasing works that drive people in that direction.
In addition to that, all of the real people with great taste I meet, are not out there talking about it. They confidently spread it.
Many years ago one of our cats got out, she was gone for 3 weeks, we tracked her down using 6 game cameras. Long story short, I have 200,000 images of "wild life"... Last year I used a VLM to catalog all of the images by generating detailed descriptions. I was able to find images of our cat in 3 searches, the same images we used to identify her originally, which took hours each day combing through thousands of images.
The issue is that software engineers most often strike a balance between passive aggressive and overly opinionated... Its a shit mix if you ask me- very frustrating personality to work with.
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