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Re: How normal am I?

#93
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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?

You have to weigh “what could go wrong?” with “what could go right?”

The worst case scenario is far greater in magnitude than the best case scenario.

Just not worth any risk here.

Re: How normal am I?

#94
I stumbled across this when it launched. Here's the talk by the artist that gives some background information: https://youtu.be/bp23r-Gtdkk

Rather than talking about webcam permissions, I think we should talk about how much we use and rely on bad ML models. Dating apps might want to rate attractiveness, but we have no checks in place to see how we're being rated. Especially free open access models probably don't come with a thorough bias&limitations datasheet.

Re: How normal am I?

#95
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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?

> Devil’s advocate here. What could go wrong? Could be used for a scam, by a stalker, for social engineering, or several other evil ploys. Today, there are so many possible bad actions which are happening... On average, they are unlikely, but not impossible. And who knows about the long run. > 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 stre…

Could be a scam, but the guy has a Dutch accent and talks about privacy, so it's probably fine.

(I'm 54% averagely normal)

Re: How normal am I?

#96
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It underestimated my age by 15 years. Not sure if this is due to the AI being biased or simply inaccurate in general. (I'm Asian, and from the experience of me and others, Asians tend to get their age greatly underestimated in the west.)

I am 39 and it estimated my age as 10. I am not Asian.

Re: How normal am I?

#97
> No personal data is sent to our server in any way. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. All the face detection algorithms will run on your own computer, in the browser.

> In this 'test' your face is compared with that of all the other people who came before you.

No data is sent, but your face is compared with that of all the other people that came before you....

Re: How normal am I?

#98

It guessed my age wrong, my BMI wrong, it got the thing that I came closer wrong, it got my expression wrong, and my attractiveness, which SHOULD be much higher ;)

Your username improves this comment :P

I gamed the attractiveness model for as long as I could, trying different angles and glasses on/off and hit 9.2. If dating apps use a max() across pictures that would be great.

Re: How normal am I?

#99
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Sharing my face with my camera with a random website? Sure, what could go wrong... /s

For the extra paranoid, I can confirm that it does work offline after you press the button and let it load. You can hide your face until it loads, and then cut the connection. Be sure to close the tab before you go online again.

Re: How normal am I?

#100

I like this AI more than hotornot. The AI gave me 7.2 score, while at hotornot (this was... 20 years ago, at this point?) I don't think I ever even got a 6...

Maybe both AIs are accurate and you just age like a fine wine.
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