A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

Post by Gustomaximus » Thu, May 11, 2017, 3:46 AM UTC

TFortunato wrote: post #59

_kb wrote: post #15

You'd be surprised / scared / outraged if you knew how common this is. Any time you've been in a public place for the past few years, you've likely been watched, analysed and optimised for. Advertising in the physical world is just as scummy as it's online equivalent. Check out the video here http://sightcorp.com/ for an ultra creepy overview. You can even try their live demo: https://face-api.sightcorp.com/demo_basi…

I tried the demo. A little sad, that it sees me as 12 years older than I am, and that I apparently always look angry and disgusted! I'm going to blame it on my glasses and bushy beard, and try to look at the bright side - apparently face scanning systems aren't quite good enough to get a read on me yet. (And try not to be too sad about looking like a grumpy old man) (Anyone else with a glasses, a beard, or other non-…

Post by jstanley » Thu, May 11, 2017, 3:51 AM UTC

Stratoscope wrote: post #110

_kb wrote: post #15

You'd be surprised / scared / outraged if you knew how common this is. Any time you've been in a public place for the past few years, you've likely been watched, analysed and optimised for. Advertising in the physical world is just as scummy as it's online equivalent. Check out the video here http://sightcorp.com/ for an ultra creepy overview. You can even try their live demo: https://face-api.sightcorp.com/demo_basi…

I'm 65 and it says I am 39. This is a wonderful app. I will use it every day! It also picked up the colors in my aloha shirt perfectly. (Anyone who knows me knows that I am to aloha shirts as Steve Jobs was to black turtlenecks.) When I want to feel young and go shopping for shirts, now I know what to do!

Post by sesteel » Thu, May 11, 2017, 4:03 AM UTC

jstanley wrote: post #113

Stratoscope wrote: post #110

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I'm 65 and it says I am 39. This is a wonderful app. I will use it every day! It also picked up the colors in my aloha shirt perfectly. (Anyone who knows me knows that I am to aloha shirts as Steve Jobs was to black turtlenecks.) When I want to feel young and go shopping for shirts, now I know what to do!

I'm a man and it thinks I'm a woman. But it also scores me high for anger and sadness, despite (what I thought to be!) a rather neutral expression. Perhaps it knows more than we think :)

Post by matt_wulfeck » Thu, May 11, 2017, 4:06 AM UTC

rhizome wrote: post #73

jabagonuts wrote: post #68

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I like to give fake numbers in these situations. The way I see it, intentionally supplying bogus data is one of the only ways we have left to fight the machines and their algorithms!

My father had memorized a fake Social Security Number that had come as a sample card in a wallet he got in the 1950s. When anybody except the government asked for his SSN and who wouldn't relent on his pushback, he would give them that number.

Post by tjpnz » Thu, May 11, 2017, 4:09 AM UTC