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Re: How normal am I?

#81

Beauty score of 5.9 out of 10. Hmm. It may be average, but that I'm still a bit peeved.

I don't recall if the score went from 1 to 10 or 0 to 10 (or even if they mentioned that). If it was the latter wouldn't that put you slightly over average beauty? Even if not, it could have been worse to be determined "less than average" by a machine!

Re: How normal am I?

#82

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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.

Not useless at all, there are usually enough pictures of people on the internet with names, metadata, etc attached to immediately link and identify. Basically what Clearview does (did?). I would not be surprised if this was a data collection siphon.

Easy enough to check using browser dev tools.

Re: How normal am I?

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How does a patchwork of APIs and open source pretrained models receive funding from the eu...

Indeed - I was also surprised by this. One possibility, which I hope is true, is that the authors are funded for something else (some actual research). If they spent a few hours of their workday to throw this together, they might be obligated to cite their funding agency. I know for a fact that I've acknowledged funding agencies on papers about topics that were at best extremely tangential to my grant. A less flatter…

> they wanna use EU affiliation as a badge for respect for privacy or something like that.

Literally my first thought.

Re: How normal am I?

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post #28

Wow, got my age exactly!

mine was off by 40 years .... it said I lied about my age

When I saw that it said I lied about my age (it thought I was nearly 10 years younger), I wondered whether there was going to be another metric later about whether being accused of lying made you appear angry. I was disappointed by this one omission, but greatly enjoyed it overall!

Re: How normal am I?

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post #21

I was not really prepared for being told how unattractive I am this morning.

I was a 6.3 as I stepped out of bed. I took a shower, shaved, brushed my teeth, put on a nice shirt, fixed my hair and offered a good angle of my best smile at the camera. I was now a 9.

Interesting! I thought it would be purely based on facial symmetry.

Re: How normal am I?

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I was initially put off by the webcam permission requirement, but the terms and conditions page says it's basically an art project and they don't send any data off (unless you explicitly accept it at the end) so I gave it a chance. I'm glad I allowed webcam permission because it was an interesting, informative, and fun look at biometric tracking. Apparently I'm "violently average" which is not a way I would previousl…

I found that the most shocking. 96% of people who used this didn't read the conditions first.

It's skewed. I read the terms first, but then the website bugged so I had to reload. And then it said I haven't read the terms first. So....
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