One of his other comment on reddit related to stopping CV research:

"pjreddie 30 points·2 months ago· edited 2 months ago

I've never been in a car that was using my tech to avoid killing people but I have had a 3 star general rave about how my work was being deployed in war zones and how army research groups love my software.

Edit: to say that i'm not arguing against CV research as a whole, i'm just saying i don't want to do it anymore because of the impact i saw my work having"