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Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment

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Post by sarreph »

maplethorpe wrote: post #6

A few sentences in, I was thinking that the article felt AI-generated, so I scrolled to the bottom of the page. There's no author listed, but there is this disclaimer: "AI assists in refining our editorial process, ensuring that every article is engaging, clear and succinct." One thing I hope we'll see in the future on these types of articles is the ability to view the original prompt. If your goal is to be succinct,…

The (presumably fully human) author is listed in the byline at the top of the article.

What is sadly rather ironic is the author's first name, "Al" looks like AI when stylised in the article's font.

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Post by MyOutfitIsVague »

hamdingers wrote: post #17

From the video this appears to be face detection, with some cute strings attached at random to the detected faces. I don't see evidence of facial recognition.

It displays the faces on the screen, and you recognize them.

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Post by jkestner »

thw_9a83c wrote: post #11

> The band deployed live facial recognition technology that captured and analyzed attendees during their recent performance. I think more drama has been created around this than is necessary. Based on the video, the real-time projected visitor's faces were not analyzed. They were simply shown with a random description flag attached, such as "energetic," "compassionate," "inspiring," "fitness influencer," or "cloud wa…

The fact that people were uncomfortable with simply having their pictures taken and shown without their knowledge gives lie to the idea that "You're in a public place—of course you have no right to privacy." It's great to be given the chance to face your principles.

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Post by tptacek »

jsbisviewtiful wrote: post #18
tptacek wrote: post #5

Neat and all, but I'd be even happier if they flirted with the experiment of actually touring a new album, rather than serving as trip-hop's answer to Roger Waters, touring forever on the same 12 songs.

Massive Attack has 7 albums, so what are you talking about?

It's been 15 years since their last original LP and over 20 years since the last album anyone really cared about (Google their setlists --- they play more covers than they do tracks from their last LP).

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Post by wisemang »

tptacek wrote: post #16
bigiain wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I agree, in that I'd love a new album. God damn those are 12 great songs!

I'd say the same thing but I saw them on the Mezzanine nostalgia tour in Chicago, which was very expensive, and it was... not one of the best shows I've seen. I'd seen them a couple times prior and they were fine (I was both times surprised by the guest vocalists they'd managed to drag along on those tours). The Mezzanine tour though was like Spinal Tap's appearance on the Simpsons; "there will be no encore!".

I thoroughly enjoyed their Toronto show on that tour. To be fair it was the first time I’d seen them in concert so I didn’t have any points of comparison.

I also hadn’t really clued in to just how political they were until seeing their visuals, which I also thought added a lot. Surely not everyone’s cup of tea though.

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Post by ricardonunez »

jkingsman wrote: post #3

Feels like this title could benefit from clarification that 'Massive Attack' refers to the band and not the concept of a large scale attack; perhaps "Band 'Massive Attack' Turns Concert into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment"

“Turns concert” clarified it to me.

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Post by pier25 »

hamdingers wrote: post #17

From the video this appears to be face detection, with some cute strings attached at random to the detected faces. I don't see evidence of facial recognition.

how did the code crop faces without facial recognition?

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Post by bruffen »

jkingsman wrote: post #3

Feels like this title could benefit from clarification that 'Massive Attack' refers to the band and not the concept of a large scale attack; perhaps "Band 'Massive Attack' Turns Concert into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment"

My next stop was going to be LiveLeak to see the aftermath.
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