Billions Fund Pelican Images While Lost Pets Still Rely on Paper Posters
jedisct1 · x · 2026-09-23
Developer jedisct1 (Frank Denis) argues AI priorities are misplaced: billions pour into image generation while finding lost pets still means paper posters and obscure Facebook groups. His thread's points: recognition tech already exists (he praises Petnow for photo-matching missing pets, but nobody knows it); the real problem is fragmentation — separate apps with tiny user pools and non-interoperable databases, so a sighting in one app can't help a search in another; and the ideal flow should be as simple as snapping a photo and sharing the location. Tech capability isn't the bottleneck — reach and coordination are.
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