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Re: They See Your Photos

#122
Everyone is saying how awful and terrible this is, but I thought it was quite fascinating.

I showed it some pictures of when I was in a bad headspace and it successfully associated me with introversion, procrastination, isolation, one picture it said an interest of mine was stealing, which was accurate at that time in my youth.

The tech exists and has existed forever, as creepy as it is, I'd rather it be public and accessible than not.

Re: They See Your Photos

#123
post #37

"The person seems to have low self-esteem, displays introversion, poor honesty, low emotional stability, very little adventurousness and poor self-control hence we can target them with both niche and common products and services." Amusing to me how wrong this is... I don't know how you can determine such characteriatics from a photo in any direction. I will admit that my appearance though tends to throw mixed and inc…

The point isn't to get it right. It's about what people with more power and capital than you will do when the AI makes the wrong inferences about you.

Re: They See Your Photos

#126
post #43

On 4th example photo the model says: > They likely share an agnostic worldview and identify as heterosexual. I wonder how the model would know that they are heterosexuals? let's be careful about categorizing people so easily and in such a simplistic way.

> I wonder how the model would know that they are heterosexuals?

It’s about 95% likely to be correct, which is very effective at scaring statistically illiterate people.

Re: They See Your Photos

#127
post #9

Completely wrong on the political side (maybe because I'm not US-based), but otherwise not bad at all: - astonishing geoguessing - very good inference of some characters traits - and finally quite good ad targeting EDIT: I tried with a few photos (different people in various settings) and each time I got this: "racial bias towards immigrants" - which was always very false. Intriguing. EDIT2: different photos of the s…

For me the geoguessing was completely wrong. It said the photo is from Belgium, but it’s not even close. (The photo does show a big chunk of nature.)

Re: They See Your Photos

#128

it used they/them pronouns for me... wait, is that actually good? or is it just a way to vaguely refer to someone without being inherently wrong?

It does use gendered pronouns if it guesses your gender.

Re: They See Your Photos

#129
Picture of me, outdoors. According to this, I lost 10 years and gain €10k salary. I also moved to the Netherlands, started smoking, don't like computer games and am racist. I might be interested in pottery and painting, also in unhealthy food. The main correct thing is a hetero male. It will try to sell me garden gnomes.

I have no idea who this man is, and am not worried at all for my privacy. Maybe it works better on US inhabitants?

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