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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I can too. Didn’t even need a program to do so.
If they look pale and wan, long-faced and sad, it’s a liberal.
I love all these replies. Every time I wanted to put one down someone else had done it. So true!
He’s an Andorian who’s had his antennae docked, camouflaged in pink-skin makeup.
I live in the bluest of blue states.
One of the disadvantages (of which there are many) is having to drive behind them and be forced to read their idiot billboard cars, or drive by their dumb ass signs for Blacks Lives Matter or We Believe signs.
When I find myself behind one of them on the highway and get a chance to pass, I have to look as I pass, and without exception-they LOOK like leftists.
The women look like no man would touch them, and the men are pear shaped guys with beards.
So can I. Look at their soulless eyes. Really. Start looking and you will see the difference.
Hahahahahahahaha....”RBF”.
See post above about Leftist women...
Do they check for lumps on the head too?
No. It is probably a mix of hormones and genes.
The “soy boy” stereotypes - the weaker effeminate men whether homo or hetero are much more likely to be liberal. More masculine men are more likely to be conservative.
Traditionally feminine women, especially once married, are much more likely to be conservative. Rush Limbaugh’s joke that feminism is equality for ugly women comes in here.
A related issue is personality, which is mostly heritable. Love of novelty is a personality trait. The more you love novelty, the more likely you are to be liberal. Liberals raise it to the level of a moral virtue - that you are yourself good if you love novelty, and those that don’t are bad.
Applied to politics, it is more diversity, more foreigners, and don’t you dare oppress them by telling them to assimilate. It translates into hatred for the familiar, both culture and people. Modern society lets them hate those who prefer traditional values, because they’re stupid and morally inferior ...
Careful with that. Many states will even post signs prior to merges to take it all the way up to the merge point. The problem with merging early is that it can back traffic up farther beyond what the designers planned for.
Big deal. So can I usually.
“Meanwhile, conservatives “tend to be healthier, drink less alcohol and smoke less, and have a different diet” – attributes that affected the skin’s health and texture.”
pretty sure this isn’t accurate.. and has everything to do with socio-economics.
Poor people in urban areas are unhealthy regardless of whether they live in a red or blue state, and when I travel to areas the media refers to as fly over country or red states I see many more unhealthy body types.
When we vote for a Republican we could use this test to see if they are a hidden liberal.
They all look like they have a high demon count.
If you look nasty, too.
The perpetual scowl, otherwise known as resting bitch face.
I thought they all did.
I don’t remember the researcher’s name and haven’t been able to find his research again.
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I didn’t miss your point. Not at all. I was just wanting to rant about how selfish most politicians and swamp people are. Look at them all running for the door the minute they think a new administration is coming in. They took all the support they could get from Trump and then they stab him in the back.
If you’re reasonably cheerful, you’re conservative leaning. If you’re scowling, you’re a liberal.
99% accurate in my experience.
Resting Bitch Face.
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