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Re: How normal am I?

#201

Algorithm says I am a 4.5 on attractiveness but also says I am 12 years younger than I am. I don't know if I should feel insulted or happy. :)

Apparently I'm also ugly, but I'll take consolation in having 81 years more to live. Sadly, that's probably because my age came out as NaN. I'll just take that I'm ageless :)

Re: How normal am I?

#202
I think the website has some bugs. The section results often appeared before the section finished loading and often the section video would never even run.

Hope he can figure out how to remove the bad data.

Re: How normal am I?

#203
post #195

Well executed. I was aware of most of the data protection and privacy concerns presented, but I wasn't aware facial recognition system are being used as widely as suggested here. If these systems ever become widely adopted I might seriously consider obscuring my face in public. Here in the UK I've noticed over the last year or so many supermarket self checkouts have been fitted with cameras and screens. I'm not naive…

Shops and many other places have had video cameras for decades to deter theft and crime so people are used to it.

The key difference here is that most CCTV up to this point has not been high resolution enough to run facial detection on.

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post #195

Well executed. I was aware of most of the data protection and privacy concerns presented, but I wasn't aware facial recognition system are being used as widely as suggested here. If these systems ever become widely adopted I might seriously consider obscuring my face in public. Here in the UK I've noticed over the last year or so many supermarket self checkouts have been fitted with cameras and screens. I'm not naive…

Shops and many other places have had video cameras for decades to deter theft and crime so people are used to it.

They're completely different. This is solely for intimidation purposes.

Cameras previously would show a wide angle view of the store so you can see when someone put something under their jacket, etc. I can understand and accept this.

In comparison these new cameras have a very swallow angle of view, they're zoomed in on your face and they're in portrait. They would be completely useless if you wanted to see if someone was, say, putting something under their jacket at checkout.

These are there to purposefully record your face and let you know that they're doing that full colour and HD whether you like it or not. It's vile and extremely rude. I've never signed an agreement accepting such an obtrusive and unreasonable violation of my privacy when I enter a supermarket - at least online I'd have to accept T&Cs before placing my order.

Re: How normal am I?

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post #195

Well executed. I was aware of most of the data protection and privacy concerns presented, but I wasn't aware facial recognition system are being used as widely as suggested here. If these systems ever become widely adopted I might seriously consider obscuring my face in public. Here in the UK I've noticed over the last year or so many supermarket self checkouts have been fitted with cameras and screens. I'm not naive…

I played around with Amazon's Rekognition software. I took one of those youtube videos where someone takes a picture of themselves every day for 10 years. It was fairly ideal conditions (consistent lighting, same pose for the most part) but the kid also went from 12 years old to 22, so his face definitely changed a lot. I used the first image as the image to compare the rest to (12 years old at the time), and I was surprised that it got pretty much almost all of them with a high degree of confidence (80%+). And the 80% ones were terrible lighting, sunglasses or an image of his girlfriend he slipped in there.

Even the sunglasses, beard, face paint, bad lighting or puberty didn't throw off the model.

The open source dlib model was considerably worse, but AWS Rekognition was incredible

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/how-facial-recognition-w...

Re: How normal am I?

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post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shops and many other places have had video cameras for decades to deter theft and crime so people are used to it.

They're completely different. This is solely for intimidation purposes. Cameras previously would show a wide angle view of the store so you can see when someone put something under their jacket, etc. I can understand and accept this. In comparison these new cameras have a very swallow angle of view, they're zoomed in on your face and they're in portrait. They would be completely useless if you wanted to see if someon…

100% agreed on this, and have no idea how to tackle it.

Re: How normal am I?

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post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're completely different. This is solely for intimidation purposes. Cameras previously would show a wide angle view of the store so you can see when someone put something under their jacket, etc. I can understand and accept this. In comparison these new cameras have a very swallow angle of view, they're zoomed in on your face and they're in portrait. They would be completely useless if you wanted to see if someon…

100% agreed on this, and have no idea how to tackle it.

Stop shopping at those places? But... if you have stuff from them delivered, should you turn the tables and have your own face recog stuff turned on them?

Re: How normal am I?

#208
post #119

I think many people commenting on the model making bad predictions are missing the point. The speaker argues that even though models are known to be inaccurate, companies like tinder or insurance companies might still use the model outputs since they have nothing better. Therefore, in some future (or already today?) you can suffer from bad model predictions because you are "not normal enough" for the model to make go…

Insurance companies hire very smart actuaries... and thus currently use actuarial models. Actuarial models aren't perfect either. However, throwing them out to use one of these machine prediction models would almost certainly be a disaster for the insurance company. And there is currently a lot of competition for life insurance.

Using this sort of data to enrich and refine existing data, vs throwing current stuff all out in favor of this newer data... that's what I'd expect (enrichment vs replacement). I'm fairly confident insurance companies have areas in their models where they know there's stuff they don't know. If more data can enrich their models to provide better accuracy, why wouldn't they?

Re: How normal am I?

#209
post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're completely different. This is solely for intimidation purposes. Cameras previously would show a wide angle view of the store so you can see when someone put something under their jacket, etc. I can understand and accept this. In comparison these new cameras have a very swallow angle of view, they're zoomed in on your face and they're in portrait. They would be completely useless if you wanted to see if someon…

100% agreed on this, and have no idea how to tackle it.

Put a bag over the camera before beginning your transaction!

Re: How normal am I?

#210
post #195

Well executed. I was aware of most of the data protection and privacy concerns presented, but I wasn't aware facial recognition system are being used as widely as suggested here. If these systems ever become widely adopted I might seriously consider obscuring my face in public. Here in the UK I've noticed over the last year or so many supermarket self checkouts have been fitted with cameras and screens. I'm not naive…

I thought it was so people behind the till could do age checks and bypass machine blocks without having to move.
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