Posted on 01/16/2021 6:17:30 AM PST by blam
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the surveillance state has utilized technology derived from Silicon Valley, such as facial recognition algorithms, to enhance society’s control.
Authoritarian regimes and unscrupulous corporations are leveraging these technologies to track citizens, stalk criminals, and monitor employees, but what if this technology, rapidly advancing in the last couple of years, can determine a person’s political views?
Imagine this; obviously, the Washington Metropolitan Area is lined with surveillance cameras, with some cameras that may already be employing facial recognition algorithms. Hypothetically speaking, what if these cameras could recognize an angry mob and accurately (to some degree) identify their political views by observing their faces and then alert authorities of potential social unrest in a specific area.
While that technology has yet to be deployed, it may certainly exists.
Researchers have developed a facial recognition algorithm that they claim can determine a person’s political views with reasonable accuracy.
Stanford University’s Michal Kosinski conducted a study published on Monday in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.
“Ubiquitous facial recognition technology can expose individuals’ political orientation, as faces of liberals and conservatives consistently differ,” Kosinski said.
He trained the facial recognition algorithm to accurately guess a person’s political view with an accuracy rating of about 72%. To do this, the researcher trained an algorithm with over one million profiles from social media websites across the US, UK, and Canada.
“Political orientation was correctly classified in 72% of liberal-conservative face pairs, remarkably better than chance (50%), human accuracy (55%), or one afforded by a 100-item personality questionnaire (66%). Accuracy was similar across countries (the U.S., Canada, and the UK), environments (Facebook and dating websites), and when comparing faces across samples. Accuracy remained high (69%) even when controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity,” he said.
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You made our point, good job!
Apparently at least one set of pics they used was from dating sites in 2017, on the theory that people wouldn’t lie about their political leanings because no one would to fight with a new potential love interest over politics.
Another article said the algorithm would probably do even better if they had more pictures, different angles, higher resolution and include the physical background of a subject’s image.
Freegards
How is that?
Liberal males look undersized, weak, pathetic and hipsterish. Liberal women are fat and angry with bright unnatural hair. Liberals of both genders are often androgynous.
I read about a researcher who could tell if a man is gay by some muscle on the side of the face.
He was shown a picture of a young African tribal man. He said the man was from a violent culture that practiced sodomy with boys. He was right. I don’t remember the researcher’s name and haven’t been able to find his research again.
No one needs a degree to spot a liberal.
Lol. Just yesterday I drove next to a guy, alone in his car, wearing both a mask and rubber gloves. He’d clearly bought into the current fear-porn. I had to resist pointing and laughing at him. Fortunately he turned right at the next street....
Sort of a Hillary/Madonna/AOC/Tlaib countenance.
Says it all reminds me of congress.
Yes, that type of scientific inquiry is verboten!
-they're wearing an Obama shirt
-they have wooden blocks in their ear lobes
-they have metal studs in their face
-they have tattoos on their face but they're not in a Latino gang
-they're wearing a pink pussy hat
-if the woman suffers from Resting Bitch Face (RBF)
-they have XY chromosomes and are wearing butterfly wings
This information is not to be used to shut them down. They need to be encouraged as much as possible to publicly warn others like Gary Larson's 'The Far Side' Cartoon "How Nature Says Do Not Touch".
If you’re in the lanes that merges, and you pass people who have already merged, and you go aaalllllll the way up until the last second and jam your way into the merge at that point, you are a fkng moron!!! Plain and simple... That’s how...
Most politicians are self-serving. They're in office for the sex, power and money. The less attractive or less wealthy they are the more you can be sure that's what they want.
You have to replace the words URL of photo with the actual URL of the photo, but do not delete the quotation marks.
Re: #56 Helen Thomas? Has the right amount of pucker.
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