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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

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Hi, I'm Rasmus and worked on the algorithms behind faces.ethz.ch. If you have any technical questions, let me know! Sorry for having some stability issues, we got much more traffic than expected and are currently working hard to fix everything!

From a data privacy point of view I would very much appreciate if you added a prominent "delete upload" button to the result page.

Yes a "delete" button would nice.

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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This would make a great psychology experiment. Use an algorithm to detect someone's age, then randomly assign them an attractiveness score and see how their behavior differs based on the result. How does the random attractiveness result effect how likely they are to share their score? To retake the test? Does this vary based on the users age?

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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Plus: The algorithm thought I was 24 years old. I'm actually 32. Minus: I got the lowest rating possible. Haha, terribly depressing feedback before a date.

Don't feel too bad -- I ran a photo of Brad Pitt through it and he merely got a "Nice". Granted, I tried a second one and he got "Godlike". I wonder how sensitive the results are to general lighting in the photo.

I ran lichtenstein's m-m-maybe, and it returned stunning, and 26, which is probably about right, even if it's a copy of a comic.

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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post #25
post #14

Hi, I'm Rasmus and worked on the algorithms behind faces.ethz.ch. If you have any technical questions, let me know! Sorry for having some stability issues, we got much more traffic than expected and are currently working hard to fix everything!

From a data privacy point of view I would very much appreciate if you added a prominent "delete upload" button to the result page.

"We do not save the uploaded image." from the take-this-seriously? popup.

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

From a data privacy point of view I would very much appreciate if you added a prominent "delete upload" button to the result page.

Yes a "delete" button would nice.

We do not store any photo on the server, so no worries!

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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Plus: The algorithm thought I was 24 years old. I'm actually 32. Minus: I got the lowest rating possible. Haha, terribly depressing feedback before a date.

Don't feel too bad -- I ran a photo of Brad Pitt through it and he merely got a "Nice". Granted, I tried a second one and he got "Godlike". I wonder how sensitive the results are to general lighting in the photo.

I think ethnicity does play some role too (which maybe works with the lighting hypothesis?).

I put pictures of really attractive Asian guys (specifically men who honestly have a lot of diehard female fans who are interested in them) and at best they got "Nice"

Re: Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

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Plus: The algorithm thought I was 24 years old. I'm actually 32. Minus: I got the lowest rating possible. Haha, terribly depressing feedback before a date.

Don't feel too bad -- I ran a photo of Brad Pitt through it and he merely got a "Nice". Granted, I tried a second one and he got "Godlike". I wonder how sensitive the results are to general lighting in the photo.

Experimented more - it appears to be strongly influenced by facial expression. If I have a straight face, I'm hmm or OK. If I scowl, I'm nice. If I grin like an axe-wielding maniac, I'm stunning.

Then again, that bears up in reality. People who smile are perceived as more attractive.

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