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Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#101

http://i.imgur.com/Lq648My.png Well, there goes my last ounce of self esteem. If anyone needs me I'll be sitting in the corner with one of those criminal hacker ski masks while I work on open source stuff.

Get rid of the headphones and try again

It's a comb-over you insensitive bastard!

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#102
post #76

See also "What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie" at http://karpathy.github.io/2015/10/25/selfie/ . To summarise the "What makes a good #selfie" section: - Be female. - Face should occupy about 1/3 of the image. - Cut off your forehead. - Show your long hair. - Oversaturate the face. - Put a filter on it. - Add a border.

In a mirror in the bathroom or pointing down at you from above your head at an awkward angle, and duckface lots of duckface.

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#103

http://i.imgur.com/Lq648My.png Well, there goes my last ounce of self esteem. If anyone needs me I'll be sitting in the corner with one of those criminal hacker ski masks while I work on open source stuff.

I got a http://iobound.com/pareidoloop/ output image categorized as "Hot"...

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#104

http://i.imgur.com/Lq648My.png Well, there goes my last ounce of self esteem. If anyone needs me I'll be sitting in the corner with one of those criminal hacker ski masks while I work on open source stuff.

Feel better about yourself: http://imgur.com/uJVnQ9S

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#105

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Well, you could still add a delete button to make people feel better (I'm only half joking)

And as a potential user I'm only half-insulted. But seriously, what purpose would it serve over a promise in TOS? A normal user will trust both (except the button would be bullshitting them). A privacy-obsessed one will trust neither.

You could make a delete button which merely opens a popup to explain that they do not save it in the first place. That way if they're looking for a delete button, they'll find it, but it will give them the right information.

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#106
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Well, if it makes you feel better, see what the algo thinks is hot… https://polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/tI9QTAblYVanuA9 :-)

I've been feeding it various pictures of fursuits at different angles to see if I could force it to treat one as human, but so far I've been unsuccessful.

I've tried to get it to tell me how godlike my cat is, but it just won't.

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#108
When I put a picture of myself that had the contrast turned up my picture was rated "godlike", when I put in the original picture it was rated "hot", and when I turned down the contrast some it was rated "ok." I'm an unhealthy, almost pasty shade of white with a slightly bulbous nose and a classic fivehead.

Now, this a problem for bigger reasons:

An older picture of Denzel Washington gets an ok: http://imgur.com/Li0gZqH

A recent picture of Howard Stern gets a hot: http://imgur.com/L8hxoVK

Obviously this is just a toy and your algorithm is pretty inexact, but... you need to fix it, or at least note in giant letters that it only works for white people right now and that you're working on your algorithm to make it more universal. Because it only (kinda, sorta?) works for white people right now. If you claim something is universal in your headline then note its specificity in the fine print, you're lying. If you build an algorithm that calls most people who aren't white ugly, you need to think about the buzz-to-backlash factor of demoing it.

It's really not a good look, and you've got a week at most before you get called a "Nazi Dating App" on twitter and your potential VCs get spooked and pull out. I don't think it's intentional on your part, but literally no one cares about what your intentions are when there's an opportunity to create moral indignation clickbait. Just a friendly word of warning!

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#109
post #81

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31-year-old trans MTF here... uploaded my most recent picture, and it said I was 20, female, and ice cold "Hmm...". Uploaded a picture from about a month ago... same, except it said I was 19. Well, I'm flattered it thinks I can't drink, and I'm glad I pass. Too bad it doesn't think I'm hot, but I've always preferred to go for cute over hot anyway. I'm gonna dig through my photos and see how consistent this is... (edi…

As an example (both me, and I'm in my early 30s): 24, "Hmm...": http://imgur.com/V1AMDfd 27, "Stunning": http://imgur.com/bmmJ2dg I'm actually a year younger in the second picture than the first. Maybe it's the glasses?

Any chance of seeing a photo of you in guymode that it recognises as being in guymode?

In its defence, you do look very different in those photos. I wouldn't recognise you as the same person. That said, I'm surprised that it ranked you so poorly in the first photo.

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

#110

As someone who switches genders I find that it guesses my trans flavor right fairly often - maybe 75% of the time. It always gets my cis flavor right. Also, the ones it rates the least attractive it, for some reason, tends to identify me as much younger (across both genders). Like more than a decade younger than the picture, and it'll rate it "Hmm..." As for the highest rated pictures... I can't figure out what it do…

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