RainRatBot - Frequently Asked Questions

Are you going to open source your program or data set?

I'm not planning to release them. For the program, remember that I am using Clarifai for the recognition. Reading my code wouldn't tell you anything about AI. You would learn more about the Clarifai API from reading their docs than trying to understand what my code does.

If I released the data, there would be a lot of photos separated from any credit to their photographers. It wouldn't be fair to them to release it myself. Perhaps one day if I can't provide this service any more, I'll pass them on to a single successor, who I would ask they also keep them out of general distribution.

What if I don't want my fursuit recognized?

I'm pretty sure I'm be on solid legal ground have it recognized even if the owner doesn't want it, since the only thing it replies with is a public name; the users don't even see the photos used to train it.

But, I don't really want to spend CPU cycles and storage on someone not interested, so I'd remove someone who didn't want to be included.

I don't like it replying to my photos in a group that I'm in. Can you have it not do that?

It's up to the group owner whether they add the bot, and they can remove it if they choose.

Now, if you don't like it replying to your photos because its reply is wrong, I can help with that. Just report it to me (including the photo that triggered it), and I'll fix it in the next update. I don't know if it's giving wrong results unless someone reports it.