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?
Trick Google Maps to prove a big point about big data
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.
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.
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!”
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?
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
https://simonweckert.com/digitalcamouflage.html
Yeah I did say it was a neat art project but the title also says “to prove a big point”. What does it prove?
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.
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
Precisely.
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.
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?