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HN: "delete Facebook" Also HN: "show your face to this random site so an algorithm can tell you if you're hot or not"
It didn't seem to cause any problems.
HN: "delete Facebook" Also HN: "show your face to this random site so an algorithm can tell you if you're hot or not"
The Joke is the line that says: "Read terms: NO - Normal (88%)" Gave me a chuckle. We are so used to shitty TOS, cookie banners and all kinds of BS that we learned to just click them away.
I pointed my camera at my monitor and brought up conventionally attractive celebrities. No one got higher than 6.2. Zac Efron: 6.2 Henry Cavill: 5.9 Pierce Brosnan: 5.1 Shemar Moore: 4.7
Yeah the data-gathering-AI-stuff is cool & creepy but I'm actually more interested in the UX of the site. Forget buttons, dialogs, beautifully designed pages. Future UIs should have videos of a person talking telling you what is happening and what to do next!
Only if those who want to can turn it off and get text. It works in this context, but most contexts I'm going to guess it would be more rather than less frustrating.
Yeah the data-gathering-AI-stuff is cool & creepy but I'm actually more interested in the UX of the site. Forget buttons, dialogs, beautifully designed pages. Future UIs should have videos of a person talking telling you what is happening and what to do next!
I mean for all we know the guy could have been a deepfake
BMI was way off but the metric itself is such a crude generalization so this is probably excusable.
It would have been interesting to see some summary statistics for each of the predictions.
So then the issue is who has this data, because algorithms are increasingly becoming commodity. Right now the biggest databases are superpowers, big tech , and ordinary countries. One way to remove the competitive advantage of any good or bad actor, is to make the data commonplace, in order to render it worthless, in order to remove the incentive for so much spying.