Comment on Man uses 99 phones to trick Google Maps into thinking there’s a traffic jam to prove a big point
artyom@piefed.social 11 hours ago
I mean, that’s a neat art project. But doesn’t really prove anything. You could spin up a hundred VMs and spoof the location and achieve the same thing but…why? Piss someone off by rerouting traffic through their neighborhood?
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
dudes an artist, it’s an art project just to prove that it’s something you can do
he also designed a shirt that makes you harder for a computer to detect
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artyom@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Yeah I did say it was a neat art project but the title also says “to prove a big point”. What does it prove?
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Well… from the ….article….
Weckert describes the work as a form of hacktivism aimed at exposing how fragile and influenceable data systems can be. By manipulating something as widely trusted as Google Maps, he wanted to make the hidden mechanics of algorithms visible and understandable.
_NetNomad@fedia.io 9 hours ago
i think what artyom is getting at is that showing google maps works the way we already knew it worked isn't much of a point, let alone a big one
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
I mean, it isn’t even to prove it’s something you can do. This was done years ago as a proof of concept already. So he’s literally just doing something that’s already been done, and calling it art.
Like walking into an elevator, pushing all the buttons, and going “art!”
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
That didn’t detect the human shaped statue or movie posters as humans?