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A Little Help...
I've recently stumbled across an app called "Be My Eyes" (thank you, slightly weird Instagram feed) - which is an app to connect blind or visually impaired people with those with seeing eyes per video call, to help them with the little bits that are just extra hard to do when you can't see. Like reading the labels on a new machine. Or deciphering an address on a letter. Or... well. You can probably imagine lots of stuff like that.
The idea is to have a network of seeing volunteers, and when someone needs an eye, they can call. First volunteer who takes the call gets to see the problem (pun intended), and help solve it. A really neat idea!
If you're interested, you can learn more about the app here: https://www.bemyeyes.com/about
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Hypothetically, a great thing - and indeed I thought so when I first heard of it several years ago. However, the license you agree to is dodgy AF, especially given it's a company that also has an AI equivalent and some aspects of it are not free. E.g. from teh Terms of Use, specifically the Licence of User Content:
"You [the person who initiates the video call] hereby grant to Be My Eyes, and Be My Eyes hereby accepts from you, a royalty-free, sub-licensable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, commercialize, and make derivative works of your User Content, including your name, voice, and/or likeness as contained in your User Content, in whole or in part, and in any form, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose in connection with the Services and Be My Eyes (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business."
In an AI world, that sounds a heck of a lot like a license to take your advice, voice and face not only for advertising but to feed into an AI model to make a paid-for equivalent service.