Comment on Man uses 99 phones to trick Google Maps into thinking there’s a traffic jam to prove a big point
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks agodudes 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
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!”
That didn’t detect the human shaped statue or movie posters as humans?
artyom@piefed.social 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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
artyom@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
Precisely.
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Maybe ‘we’ know that, but certainly not the world at large. Also, it shows something interesting that some may not have thought of. You might even be able to use this for some protests or activism. Idk.