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Re: How normal am I?

#62
Surprisingly fun, I’m glad I allowed camera permission for this. My favorite subtle detail was the username on the camera view updating to reflect the different bits of information it was predicting about you.

Re: How normal am I?

#64

Surprisingly fun, I’m glad I allowed camera permission for this. My favorite subtle detail was the username on the camera view updating to reflect the different bits of information it was predicting about you.

Ha! Nice try, cop.

Re: How normal am I?

#65

It gave me an attractiveness of 9.5, and 5-10 years younger than I am, which has actually given me a big boost of confidence. How strange.

I've heard that line works in any number of sales situations.

And I have to say, thowawayben, that you are indeed one handsome devil. Please feel free to upvote my comment.

Re: How normal am I?

#68
post #44
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Sharing my face with my camera with a random website? Sure, what could go wrong... /s

Devil’s advocate here. What could go wrong? If you open a website in a fresh browser context and let it use your camera, isn’t this about the same as walking down a street with CCTV cameras?

> fresh browser context

I get your point, but I am not sure how fresh our browser context is.

Re: How normal am I?

#69

It gave me an attractiveness of 9.5, and 5-10 years younger than I am, which has actually given me a big boost of confidence. How strange.

I've heard that line works in any number of sales situations. And I have to say, thowawayben, that you are indeed one handsome devil. Please feel free to upvote my comment.

I think my inclination is to trust the algorithm more than any humans, which is the interesting part! It gave me a confidence boost far more than I've felt when other people have told me such things.

Re: How normal am I?

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post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Devil’s advocate here. What could go wrong? If you open a website in a fresh browser context and let it use your camera, isn’t this about the same as walking down a street with CCTV cameras?

Most people have such weird and illogical views on privacy. A website collecting face pictures without anything else is pretty useless. Walking in to a retail store owned by a company using facial recognition on a huge range of owned stores is a serious privacy issue.

Face pictures and IP adresses...
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