UCLA asks for public’s help in finding signs of extraterrestrial intelligence

[hackernj]

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-02-14/ucla-is-asking-for-the-publics-help-in-finding-extraterrestrial-intelligence

[brucethemoose2]

Link: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ucla-seti-group/are-we-a...

I guess this serves some secondary purposes:

- Generating public interest (which helps them stay funded, recruit long term, and so on)

- Provide training data for machine vision.

[giardini]

This will be something they regret: every nutball with a UFO theory or abduction "experience" will seek them out.