Meta's AI SAM, a criminal and military aid?

Is it me? Is it, just me that as soon as I watched this I thought the most obvious usage cases for this are all nefarious. How to case a joint, with measurements, easily, how to acquire targets. These are the first things that sprang to mind. In fact it was hard to think of many good cases, the narrator gives an example of a mechanic, but if a mechanic requires such augmented reality, I'd prefer another garage. If you need this for cooking recipes, then I'd rather go to a greasy café.

SAM is a 'Segment Anything Model' or, ' a promptable segmentation system with zero-shot generalization to unfamiliar objects and images, without the need for additional training.' The Meta website further informs us 'SAM's advanced capabilities are the result of its training on millions of images and masks collected through the use of a model-in-the-loop "data engine." ' One can only wonder where the millions of images used for training where obtained from, hey Meta?

The paper that explains about SAM can be found here.

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