[HN Gopher] How normal am I?
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       How normal am I?
        
       Author : un_montagnard
       Score  : 492 points
       Date   : 2022-07-05 05:46 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.hownormalami.eu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.hownormalami.eu)
        
       | davidkuennen wrote:
       | Very educational. Well done.
        
       | kyawzazaw wrote:
       | If anyone is interested on similar type of anthropology studies,
       | check out Qoves Studio. (They also have a similar website and
       | also a paid service by actual persons w/ experience and degrees.)
       | 
       | https://qoves.com
       | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnlvhYDQLq4d_C3JYEVnWAQ
        
       | aero-glide2 wrote:
       | Beauty less than normal, sigh
        
       | Bromeo wrote:
       | I think many people commenting on the model making bad
       | predictions are missing the point. The speaker argues that even
       | though models are known to be inaccurate, companies like tinder
       | or insurance companies might still use the model outputs since
       | they have nothing better. Therefore, in some future (or already
       | today?) you can suffer from bad model predictions because you are
       | "not normal enough" for the model to make good predictions, and
       | might therefore receive a wrong predicted life expectancy and
       | higher insurance bills.
        
         | kjkjadksj wrote:
         | This isnt an usolvable problem though since you can calculate
         | the strength of model fit for a particular data point. You
         | learn how to do this with linear models in stat 101 so everyone
         | who is paid to be a datascientist will no doubt understand
         | this.
        
           | Bromeo wrote:
           | Unfortunately the theory for linear models does not translate
           | easily to deep learning based models, which this demo is
           | based on. The "strength of model fit" becomes much more
           | complicated and is an active field of deep learning research.
        
           | canaus wrote:
           | It might not be an unsolvable problem, but it is a problem
           | that is apparent currently in the technologies that we use.
        
         | aendruk wrote:
         | Already experiencing this with automated fraud detection
         | systems. Excessive captchas, "there was a problem with your
         | order", unexplained 403s, etc.
        
         | hinkley wrote:
         | Credit already works this way.
        
         | car_analogy wrote:
         | > you can suffer from bad model predictions
         | 
         | This is the _worst_ anti-surveillance argument. The last thing
         | I want is to be accurately predicted. As far as I 'm concerned,
         | once the models are perfected and they can accurately predict
         | everything you will do or say, things will be far worse.
        
         | ensignavenger wrote:
         | Insurance companies hire very smart actuaries... and thus
         | currently use actuarial models. Actuarial models aren't perfect
         | either. However, throwing them out to use one of these machine
         | prediction models would almost certainly be a disaster for the
         | insurance company. And there is currently a lot of competition
         | for life insurance.
        
           | cloverich wrote:
           | If one of these models is on average better, then they would
           | gain an advantage by using it. The problem is for the "not
           | normal enough" folks, it may be _harder_ to remedy an invalid
           | classification, particularly if there are no fallbacks or
           | work arounds. I was cued into this once by an ML book that
           | gave an example of a fraud detection company using an
           | actually worse algorithm, because when it gave false
           | positives it was easier to understand and hence easier to
           | manually override. But if it is less profitable to operate
           | this way, and there is no regulation around it, people
           | getting falsely classified may be out of luck. That's where
           | the discussion around regulation needs to happen, I think.
        
           | lowercased wrote:
           | Using this sort of data to enrich and refine existing data,
           | vs throwing current stuff all out in favor of this newer
           | data... that's what I'd expect (enrichment vs replacement).
           | I'm fairly confident insurance companies have areas in their
           | models where they know there's stuff they don't know. If more
           | data can enrich their models to provide better accuracy, why
           | wouldn't they?
        
             | kqr wrote:
             | The classic danger here is that it's very easy to
             | accidentally overfit. What people tend to do when they get
             | a perfectly good actuarial model and then hear that they
             | can "enrich" it with additional data is that they start
             | modeling noise. This is obviously not good to stay
             | profitable as an insurance firm.
        
             | ensignavenger wrote:
             | Perhaps, but the demo did not show anything an insurance
             | company would not already know. But as a wider observation,
             | financial products are already based on models even though
             | none of them are perfect. Making those models better isn't
             | really a bad thing.
        
       | k__ wrote:
       | lol, I got a beauty score of 5.
       | 
       | Which isn't surprising, since I look like crap with that shitty
       | cam.
        
       | timwaagh wrote:
       | It put me at 82% put my age at 20 (I am 34 and visibly graying).
       | This was the project of a student of a local uni so I'm not going
       | to put too much stock in it. But as student projects go it's
       | pretty slick.
        
         | drdaeman wrote:
         | Heh. It got almost everything off. The only two things it got
         | right were gender and that I've smiled.
         | 
         | [?] Read terms - hah! I wanted to check what would happen if I
         | don't tick the box. It let me through. I would've most likely
         | read it otherwise.
         | 
         | [?] Beauty - okay, I'm flattered.
         | 
         | [-] Age - it thought I lied, made me almost ten years younger.
         | I guess the model was trained to studio-quality photos, not
         | what my camera had produced against a bright window.
         | 
         | [+] Gender - yeah, it got me, I'm an attack helicopter^W^W^W^W.
         | Just kidding, but yeah, the model had worked correctly.
         | 
         | [-] BMI - it thought I'm overweight. I was underweight until
         | very recently when I've started to work out and grew a bit of
         | muscle making it to the lower threshold of "normal" BMI range.
         | 
         | [-] Life expectancy - hard to argue about it, but it's probably
         | somewhat off, because I've moved almost halfway across the
         | globe.
         | 
         | [-] Came closer - that was really weird because it thought I
         | didn't, but I sure did. I've got at least 15cm closer, making
         | my face from 1/4 screen tall to almost fit the it vertically.
         | How it missed that is beyond me.
         | 
         | [+] Expression - OK, yea, I think I've smiled. Not sure if that
         | was at that doggy - I was mostly just grimacing at myself.
         | 
         | So now it told me about my normalcy, I wonder the same thing -
         | is that model normal, i.e. is it representative of what most
         | people/companies why employ models like this actually use?
        
         | ArrayBoundCheck wrote:
         | It did the same for me, except I was 65% average
        
         | jmckib wrote:
         | Meanwhile I was weirded out because it guessed my age exactly.
         | I'm also 34 and I'd like to think I look a bit younger, but the
         | algorithm doesn't agree.
        
           | mcv wrote:
           | Same here. 48, but sometimes I think I look in my 30s. The
           | system wasn't fooled.
        
       | mechanical_bear wrote:
       | Violently Average
        
       | jzellis wrote:
       | Apparently I'm just shy of being fugly and look seven years
       | younger than I am. Which is kind of damning with faint praise,
       | but in a dark room when I'm barely awake? I'll take it.
        
       | wruza wrote:
       | Has anyone tried sending non-face to it?
        
         | eurasiantiger wrote:
         | How cute is your butt? Let our 100% accurate butt inspector
         | program calculate it for you.
        
       | ccbccccbbcccbb wrote:
       | Should read
       | 
       | "How gullible am I for uploading my face to some random data
       | harvester?"
        
         | npwr wrote:
         | No data leaves the browser, feel free to check it out.
        
       | thegagne wrote:
       | Similar to https://stealingurfeelin.gs/ which was created with
       | support from Mozilla.
        
       | focusedone wrote:
       | 36% Normal. "Pretty strange, in a sexy way"
       | 
       | OK, I'll take it.
        
       | mtbkvc wrote:
       | just realized i'm too ugly to even have an AI gf in the future.
       | eye-opening software for me, never considered this as an option.
        
       | hirundo wrote:
       | This appears to be a modern variation of phrenology. That doesn't
       | make it a hoax or useless, maybe phrenology was just analysing
       | the wrong features of the head. But it should start with the same
       | (skeptical) epistemic status.
        
       | self_awareness wrote:
       | 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 ;)
        
         | rdrey wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | CraftingLinks wrote:
       | Average Joe misses the point of the site.
        
       | NightWhistler wrote:
       | For people worried this might be a scam: the guy in the video is
       | Tijmen Schep and he's a privacy researcher and activist.
       | 
       | I had the pleasure of meeting him a while ago and seeing him give
       | a talk about how companies gather data and the chilling effects
       | on society.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | isaacfrond wrote:
       | Beauty score of 5.9 out of 10. Hmm. It may be average, but that
       | I'm still a bit peeved.
        
         | karolist wrote:
         | 5.8 but scored 10 years younger than I actually am so I've got
         | that going for me, which is ... I don't know.
        
         | q-big wrote:
         | > but that I'm still a bit peeved.
         | 
         | You are spoiled.
        
         | TheHypnotist wrote:
         | I blame the laptop lens
        
         | richrichardsson wrote:
         | 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!
        
         | kurupt213 wrote:
         | Is beauty the right word?
        
         | bodge5000 wrote:
         | I wouldnt feel too bad. It said I was 8.2, and looking at the
         | camera view I highly doubt that, so its probably not the most
         | accurate
        
         | KptMarchewa wrote:
         | 4.2. Well.
        
       | upupandup wrote:
       | i can see this easily devolve into affiliate links to Korean
       | cosmetic surgery hospitals. "but you could be PERFECT with just a
       | chin tuck here...rhinoplasty there etc"
        
       | toolz wrote:
       | lol, my score went up two points just changing to a different
       | webcam, also can confirm this works completely offline
       | 
       | guess I know which webcam I'm using from now on! xD
        
       | mhh__ wrote:
       | 56% of people were sad when looking at the dog
        
       | dspillett wrote:
       | Got my age to high, when in real life I usually get picked out as
       | younger than I am. BMI was significantly off too. Can't argue
       | with the not-pretty assessment though! Might give it another
       | chance under better light later.
        
       | kennethh wrote:
       | Pretty cool to see it guess your age and BMI. Lots of interesting
       | information. I also got the score violent average.
        
         | agent008t wrote:
         | Morpheus: I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are
         | to amuse visitors with information about themselves.
         | 
         | JC Denton: I don't see anything amusing about spying on people.
         | 
         | Morpheus: Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I
         | have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are.
         | 
         | JC Denton: Some people just don't understand the dangers of
         | indiscriminate surveillance.
         | 
         | Morpheus: The need to be observed and understood was once
         | satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality
         | with data-mining algorithms.
        
           | paulryanrogers wrote:
           | "Deus Ex" (Ion Storm, 2000) ?
        
             | Minor49er wrote:
             | Yes, in one of Morgan Everett's secret rooms
        
       | langsoul-com wrote:
       | My beauty score is average, racist AI xD
       | 
       | Also, very VERY interesting and informative project.
        
       | memorable wrote:
       | > You are more attractive than 0% of the Spice Girls.
       | 
       | That hurts.
        
       | pedro_hab wrote:
       | It got a lot correctly about me, and put me at 92% normal.
       | 
       | I wonder if you are too far off "normal" it won't recognize you
       | correctly, eg age.
       | 
       | It seems to be down rn
        
       | karaterobot wrote:
       | I was able to double my attractiveness by sticking out my tongue
       | and squinting one of my eyes. Hold on for a minute while I update
       | my tinder profile.
        
       | shubham_saboo wrote:
       | When prompted GPT-3 with this and asked to come up with a funny
       | response, here is what I got - "I don't know, I can't calculate
       | that."
        
       | shaolinspirit wrote:
       | wow, got 8. guess I'm not that ugly as I thought.
        
         | tidenly wrote:
         | I got a 7.4, but it went up to 8 when I changed the lighting. I
         | wonder how much is based only on the face
        
       | astura wrote:
       | Are these real/standard algorithms? This site though I was 30
       | years younger than I am.
        
       | easrng wrote:
       | Wow, got my age exactly!
        
         | Taniwha wrote:
         | mine was off by 40 years .... it said I lied about my age
        
           | drexlspivey wrote:
           | in v2 you will have to upload your ID to convince it
        
           | tromp wrote:
           | Same here, it underestimated my age by 31 years...
        
           | jeffparsons wrote:
           | 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!
        
       | tristanperry wrote:
       | Interesting for sure. The first time I done it, I had a beauty
       | score of 5. I then put glasses on and got better lighting, and
       | got up to a 7.
       | 
       | It kept saying my age was 18-20, but I'm 32.
       | 
       | Finally it kept predicting my BMI as 30+, even though it's 22.5.
       | 
       | So it was interesting, and a pretty cool tech demonstration, but
       | it wasn't too accurate for me.
        
         | ccbccccbbcccbb wrote:
         | How far is it from 'beauty score' to 'aryan score' ?
        
       | WrtCdEvrydy wrote:
       | My Windows Machine has a weird bug where it uses the primary
       | monitor as a webcam feed. Backfeeding that video gave me some
       | interesting results.
       | 
       | https://imgur.com/a/2bBVv4t
        
       | Saint_Genet wrote:
       | Almost got misgendered. I have long hair and shaved an hour ago,
       | but still. Also, guessed I have a BMI of 20
        
       | throwawayben wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | mellavora wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | throwawayben wrote:
           | 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.
        
       | swat535 wrote:
       | Well.. Apparently I'm violently average, got a score of 7.5
       | somehow.
       | 
       | Oh, also I'm 60% better looking than spice girls (will certainly
       | share this with news with my fiancee when she comes back).
       | 
       | It also somehow guessed my BMI correctly (very close), I got 21.5
       | score and my BMI is 22.
       | 
       | Impressive work!
        
       | kansface wrote:
       | My face was not recognized. I have glasses, a beard, and some
       | crazy hair at the moment. Non-faced is far less normal than I
       | expected.
        
       | albinoloverats wrote:
       | Apparently I'm a sad 5 year old girl living in the US :-/
       | 
       | Who knew? Because I certainly didn't.
        
       | stackbutterflow wrote:
       | Interestingly, if you click on the ToS you end up on a page
       | explaining how it works (can't link it).
       | 
       |  _The beauty scoring model was found on Github (this or this
       | one). The models to predict age, gender and facial expression
       | /emotion are part of FaceApiJS, which forms the backbone of this
       | project. Do note that its developer doesn't fully divulge on
       | which photos the models were trained. Also, FaceApiJS is bad at
       | detecting "Asian guys"._
       | 
       | Apparently some dating apps rates their users with these sort of
       | algorithms. Maybe I'm living under a rock but I did not know that
       | was a thing.
       | 
       |  _This project has received funding from the European Union's
       | Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under grant
       | agreement No 786641._
        
         | schleck8 wrote:
         | How does a patchwork of APIs and open source pretrained models
         | receive funding from the eu...
        
           | eurasiantiger wrote:
           | Here is the project funding information page.
           | 
           | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/786641
        
           | gspr wrote:
           | 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 flattering possibility is that they wanna use EU
           | affiliation as a badge for respect for privacy or something
           | like that.
        
             | JackFr wrote:
             | > they wanna use EU affiliation as a badge for respect for
             | privacy or something like that.
             | 
             | Literally my first thought.
        
             | tokai wrote:
             | You have to label it clearly in your project if you have
             | received Horizon money. It's a requirement from CORDIS. The
             | funding is for the whole SHERPA project, not just for that
             | page.'
             | 
             | The first objective of SHERPA is to "represent and
             | visualise the ethical and human rights challenges of SIS
             | (artificial intelligence and big data analytics) through
             | case studies". This page does that nicely. That it is put
             | together with available resources instead of some over
             | engineered solution is just a plus.
        
       | citizenpaul wrote:
       | This won't load for me. I assume its because I have a bunch of
       | privacy protection stuff going?
       | 
       | What is it?
        
       | rayxi271828 wrote:
       | 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...
        
         | kulhur wrote:
         | Maybe both AIs are accurate and you just age like a fine wine.
        
       | ksec wrote:
       | Great website. Now I know I am not only average but a liar and
       | ugly.
        
       | Alducer wrote:
       | very inaccurate generally, and the markers for eyebrows were just
       | in random places...
        
       | Saint_Genet wrote:
       | I can't help wondering how the AI would judge the clearly very
       | attractive, but not white lady on the front page of the link.
        
       | wonderwonder wrote:
       | Algorithm says I am a 4.5 on attractiveness but also says I am 12
       | years younger than I am. I don't know if I should feel insulted
       | or happy. :)
        
         | mhandley wrote:
         | Apparently I'm also ugly, but I'll take consolation in having
         | 81 years more to live. Sadly, that's probably because my age
         | came out as NaN. I'll just take that I'm ageless :)
        
       | hericium wrote:
       | I'm mesmerized that so many of the HN crowd are willing to let
       | some website take pictures of them in order to present some
       | "funny/interesting results".
        
         | muzani wrote:
         | "funny/interesting results" is a lot better than the deal I get
         | from Meta.
        
         | altdataseller wrote:
         | It just goes to show you that the vast majority of ppl don't
         | care about privacy (FWIW, I used the site as well and didn't
         | care at all, didn't even read the disclaimer)
        
         | Accacin wrote:
         | I'm mesmerized that you weren't able to validate that it works
         | completely offline and instead decided to write a comment.
        
           | sushxbehshx wrote:
        
         | Joeboy wrote:
         | There are already photos of me on the internet, which can be
         | downloaded and analysed by anybody.
        
           | InCityDreams wrote:
           | Yup. Though i am having trouble downloading what you did on
           | the 29th of last month. Busy day?
        
             | Joeboy wrote:
             | I was spending the day dead for tax reasons.
        
         | elzbardico wrote:
         | I live in a big city where my face is captured in millions of
         | frames by security cameras everyday.
         | 
         | I used android devices, now I use an iphone, and I keep cloud
         | accounts and personal photos backups with both companies. I
         | have linked-in, facebook, instagram and handful of other
         | accounts with varying levels of personal information.
         | 
         | This cat is already out of the bag, and has been for quite some
         | time.
        
       | Moctogo wrote:
       | Well, I apparently look like a 31 year-old to this AI although
       | I'm 39, so I'm considered a liar by it (them/him/her?) It's time
       | to rejoice!
        
       | luplex wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | nottorp wrote:
       | Isn't this a dupe? Or I'm mixing channels and got it some other
       | way before.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | patrulek wrote:
       | Almost perfectly guessed my age and BMI.
       | 
       | Attractiveness a lot higher than i would expect (but still in
       | range). Could be that attractiveness is related to age and BMI?
       | 
       | Seems im not normal when it comes to looking at dogo (why people
       | are so sad?)
       | 
       | It was fun, NGL.
        
         | w1nk wrote:
         | Given the usual markers of attractiveness, wouldn't you expect
         | age and weight to be strong predictors usually?
        
         | NoboruWataya wrote:
         | It was very "kind" to me, significantly underestimating my age
         | and BMI.
         | 
         | I never noticed the dog picture somehow, and I guess sad is my
         | default facial expression.
        
       | chris_st wrote:
       | I think it's hilarious that it decided, based on the AI
       | algorithm, that I lied about my age!
        
         | xeromal wrote:
         | Probably cause you're not normal meaning you look young or old
         | for your age? I think that actually makes a lot of sense.
         | 
         | I'm pretty basic and it guess my age exactly. lol
        
         | nightfeather wrote:
         | Same here. The algorithm can't decide how old I am so it just
         | told I lied that I'm not NaN years old.
        
         | pawelk wrote:
         | Same here. I selected my real age and the algorithm thinks I'm
         | 7 years younger than that (well, thanks I guess, but it is not
         | me who's not telling the truth).
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | Pakdef wrote:
        
       | atum47 wrote:
       | I'm more beautiful using my laptop camera (6.7) than my cellphone
       | (5.6). I was serious on the cellphone and smiling on the laptop,
       | this could also have tipped the scales.
        
         | atum47 wrote:
         | Also, my profile gets a higher score than the front of my face
         | (8.2)
        
           | atum47 wrote:
           | it also thinks that I'm younger than I really am.
        
             | atum47 wrote:
             | not gonna lie, I'll probably use this new information about
             | my pictures to hack my tinder profile.
        
               | atum47 wrote:
               | ladies will be matching with a 8.2 only to find out that
               | he is a real life 5, haha
        
       | Nursie wrote:
       | This is fun, but it got my age very wrong, the first run through
       | failed to guess at all, the second run through it underestimated
       | by 13 years.
       | 
       | It underestimated my BMI a bit, though I am losing weight at the
       | moment and my face does seem to be getting thinner so maybe
       | that's thrown it, and generally it told me I'm quite attractive,
       | so ... all good :)
        
       | par wrote:
       | It thinks I'm a lot skinnier than I actually am, and it thinks
       | I'm uglier than I actually am. xD
        
       | Poppys wrote:
       | Seems to have been overrun.
        
       | merpnderp wrote:
       | I think the website has some bugs. The section results often
       | appeared before the section finished loading and often the
       | section video would never even run.
       | 
       | Hope he can figure out how to remove the bad data.
        
       | needle0 wrote:
       | 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.)
        
         | astura wrote:
         | I am 39 and it estimated my age as 10. I am not Asian.
        
           | fujiters wrote:
           | I'm also not Asian. In late 30s and it guessed that I'm 7...
        
       | t0bia_s wrote:
       | Why not just upload a portrait picture? Why camera access to
       | random site?
        
         | Hamuko wrote:
         | It's interactive.
        
       | Marinus wrote:
       | Doesn't detect the location of my face properly. Not sure if
       | that's a good or a bad thing :-)
        
         | dwringer wrote:
         | This is what it did to me as well. Seemed to be picking up only
         | the right side of my head, centered on my ear. I guess that
         | means I can just double the number it gave me, right?
        
       | seanp2k2 wrote:
       | Nice demo. It was off by a decade (thought I was younger, marked
       | me down as a liar about my age lol) and obviously the beauty
       | score was too low.
        
       | jstanley wrote:
       | 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
       | previously have described myself. According to this site the most
       | unusual thing about me is that I read the terms and conditions
       | before ticking the "accept" box.
        
         | avodonosov wrote:
         | So you haven't even tried without the "accept" box. It works
         | the same, BTW.
        
         | richrichardsson wrote:
         | I found that the most shocking. 96% of people who used this
         | didn't read the conditions first.
        
           | teraku wrote:
           | 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....
        
             | Morgawr wrote:
             | Same, I had the wrong webcam plugged in and when I plugged
             | the right one the website bugged so I had to reload. It
             | said I didn't read the TOS but I did... oh well.
        
           | maest wrote:
           | That's lower than I expected, tbh.
        
         | montebicyclelo wrote:
         | > According to this site the most unusual thing about me is
         | that I read the terms and conditions before ticking the
         | "accept" box.
         | 
         | I'd put forward the hypothesis that people who read the terms,
         | and who are therefore concerned about privacy, are also less
         | likely to be willing to agree to submit the data at the end.
        
         | blablabla123 wrote:
         | Same, but I think people generally over-estimate how much
         | different from average they are. (It's from the webcam's pov
         | anyway) Usually I also don't like interactions with the webcam
         | but this was interesting enough.
        
           | cambalache wrote:
           | and now your face is linked to your ip in a db somewhere
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | Shadonototra wrote:
       | I always find it funny when .eu websites for projects sponsored
       | by the UE are all using registrar from the USA, and probably
       | hosting all of their data in US datacenters, including code
       | hosted on US platforms
       | 
       | And who knows what they do with the sensible data they manipulate
       | as a result
       | 
       | How can this still happen nowadays, what a shame and what a waste
       | of EU money
       | 
       | It clearly shows their lack of direction, ethics and care
       | 
       | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/786641
       | 
       | Total cost EUR 2 865 947,50
       | 
       | What a shame
        
         | tokai wrote:
         | What are you on about? The registrar for the SHERPAR domain is
         | Italian. hownormalami.eu is a minuscule part of the whole
         | project. And it works offline so there nothing wrong with
         | hosting it in the US when your data never hits their server.
        
       | null0pointer wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | tuxie_ wrote:
         | Ha! Nice try, cop.
        
       | tyiz wrote:
       | Camera access? Nice try, bye.
        
       | mywittyname wrote:
       | This flagged me as lying about my age because it guessed that I'm
       | 10 years younger than I am.
        
       | iopq wrote:
       | I am apparently 6 BMI higher and 5 years younger now
       | 
       | But the way it tells me that is I lied about my age (I didn't)
        
         | iopq wrote:
         | My girlfriend is actually a 20 BMI 17 year old male (all wrong)
        
           | fallinghawks wrote:
           | For me it was 15+ years too young and also got the wrong
           | gender.
        
         | wmil wrote:
         | It seems you can significantly reduce your BMI with clever
         | beard shaping.
        
       | kuu wrote:
       | Sharing my face with my camera with a random website? Sure, what
       | could go wrong... /s
        
         | ajsnigrutin wrote:
         | They give a pinky promise, that they won't do evil!
        
         | arisAlexis wrote:
         | EU funded project, really not very risky.
        
           | seanw444 wrote:
           | > Government-funded project, really not very risky.
           | 
           | No thanks.
        
             | floodle wrote:
             | I'm guessing you're from the US and the parent poster is
             | from the EU?
        
               | seanw444 wrote:
               | Correct. I don't care which government is in question,
               | though. None are worthy of my trust or data.
        
               | tinco wrote:
               | I work for a company that does projects that are
               | sometimes funded by the EU. I've never heard of the EU
               | ever asking for something in return. You submit your
               | project, the EU either decides to give you money, or not,
               | and you do your project. Sometimes they check whether
               | you've actually done what you said you'd do. No one in
               | the EU has time to deal with the output of the billions
               | of euro's they invest in random projects.
        
               | gmfawcett wrote:
               | It's not clear if you're trying to make us feel better
               | (the EU doesn't care about this project's data) or worse
               | (the EU has ineffective oversight over this project --
               | anything could be going on).
        
               | Nimitz14 wrote:
               | That's not true. You clearly have no clue of the
               | administrative side of things.
        
               | tinco wrote:
               | Ah thank you for enlightening us with your treasure trove
               | of information.
        
               | opdahl wrote:
               | If its a small project they very rarely <<check>> that
               | you have done what you have done. A lot of it is self
               | reporting. The reporting of course takes a while and you
               | have to describes for instance your results, which
               | wouldn't be too hard to fake but I assume very few do
               | this.
        
         | NoboruWataya wrote:
         | Worth it to be told I am more attractive than 100% of the Spice
         | Girls.
        
           | Hamuko wrote:
           | Spice Girls back then or Spice Girls now?
        
             | packetlost wrote:
             | It doesn't specify, so I can only assume both and which it
             | compares to depends on how ugly the user is.
        
         | avnigo wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | danuker wrote:
           | Service Workers are a thing.
           | 
           | If you're extra extra paranoid, use a disposable VM in Qubes
           | OS.
           | 
           | https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/how-to-use-disposables/
        
             | traverseda wrote:
             | Or just open it in private browsing?
        
             | Wowfunhappy wrote:
             | Wait--service workers can keep running after a tab is
             | closed?!
        
               | danuker wrote:
               | Maybe or maybe not, depending on browser implementation.
               | They can be kept in memory if the browser sees no memory
               | need.
               | 
               | But they might store stuff to localStorage. Right -
               | localStorage is also a thing. And so are cookies.
        
             | _Algernon_ wrote:
             | Or disable service workers
        
         | Rerarom wrote:
         | Don't we all have tons of pictures of ourselves online already?
        
           | ccbccccbbcccbb wrote:
           | No. This kind of auto-defaulting to "tons" baffles me quite
           | hard.
        
             | worthless-trash wrote:
             | Observation bias.
        
           | cynix wrote:
           | Nope.
        
           | mlatu wrote:
           | not all of us ^^
        
           | croes wrote:
           | No
        
           | Aleksdev wrote:
           | N-not really...
        
           | cambalache wrote:
        
           | seanw444 wrote:
           | Gonna pile on another "no."
        
           | oakpond wrote:
           | No
        
           | [deleted]
        
           | barbarbar wrote:
           | No. Zero.
        
             | mortehu wrote:
             | Do you avoid tourist attractions and cities so that you
             | aren't included in other people's photos? Even though I'm
             | not an Apple customer, for example, I'm sure they could
             | infer much of my movements from their photo database using
             | only other people's photos (I live in a city).
        
           | Joeboy wrote:
           | Almost all, yes. The people who don't are obviously not
           | normal, so they don't need the website.
        
             | ccbccccbbcccbb wrote:
             | I hope you're not diagnosing people for a living
        
               | jalk wrote:
               | But could be a fine statistician
        
             | noisy_boy wrote:
             | And by that logic, people who do are normal so they don't
             | need to use the website either. So no one needs to use the
             | website :)
        
               | pawelmurias wrote:
               | that's not how logic works
        
               | [deleted]
        
         | raverbashing wrote:
         | Did you read the terms of service? ;)
        
           | croes wrote:
           | Do you believe the terms of service?
        
             | ccbccccbbcccbb wrote:
             | Yep, another magic spell akin to 'software license' that is
             | supposed to dispell all evil.
        
             | rmbyrro wrote:
             | I believe that I verified it runs locally, even offline,
             | not sending data to a remote server.
        
               | croes wrote:
               | At least for the moment
        
               | mynameisvlad wrote:
               | What's their incentive to change that _after_ the HN
               | surge?
        
             | [deleted]
        
         | cal85 wrote:
         | 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?
        
           | RyEgswuCsn wrote:
           | > fresh browser context
           | 
           | I get your point, but I am not sure how fresh our browser
           | context is.
        
             | cal85 wrote:
             | I just mean private browsing or incognito or whatever. It's
             | 2 seconds away in any popular browser.
        
           | Gigachad wrote:
           | 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.
        
             | danparsonson wrote:
             | Face pictures and IP adresses...
        
               | worthless-trash wrote:
               | And browser fingerprint and operating system.
        
               | toss1 wrote:
               | And the bait on the hook is not a good indicator either -
               | an appeal to a deep drive or insecurity in many people.
               | 
               | Obviously not determinative in itself ,but if I wanted to
               | harvest a lot of faces in a hurry, that's _exactly_ the
               | sort of bait that I would use (I can hardly think of a
               | better one off the top of my head).
        
               | moonchrome wrote:
               | So what's the concern here ? I'm sure I have plenty of
               | photos of me online tagged by other people.
        
               | Hellbanevil wrote:
        
             | loopback_device wrote:
             | 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.
        
               | greggsy wrote:
               | > I would not be surprised if this was a data collection
               | siphon.
               | 
               | Except for it being sponsored by Eu - home to the most
               | effective privacy jurisdiction on the planet.
        
               | jhbadger wrote:
               | I don't think this is a scam/data collection site (as
               | others have recognized the researcher involved, etc.),
               | but what would stop a random website from claiming it was
               | "sponsored by the EU"?
        
               | djbebs wrote:
               | The same organization pushing for mass surveillance?
        
               | eurasiantiger wrote:
               | Easy enough to check using browser dev tools.
        
           | nkrisc wrote:
           | 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.
        
           | slightwinder wrote:
           | > 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
           | street with CCTV cameras?
           | 
           | In my country, there are harsh regulations on public cameras.
           | Private people are not even allowed to capture you outside
           | from being in the background.
        
             | Hellbanevil wrote:
        
             | mcv wrote:
             | 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)
        
             | cal85 wrote:
             | Which country is that?
        
               | slightwinder wrote:
               | A member of the European Union, there are strong
               | regulations for all countries here.
        
           | kkjjkgjjgg wrote:
           | web site has much more information about you that it can
           | connect.
        
           | jeroenhd wrote:
           | A website can collect millions of faces in a few hours. A
           | CCTV camera can only collect data from a single area.
           | 
           | It's more akin to those spying doorbells from Amazon and
           | friends, which I personally would try to avoid when I can.
           | 
           | The concentration of data and the lack of necessity of your
           | face being recorded in the first place change the decision
           | making process significantly.
        
           | 5e92cb50239222b wrote:
           | It could use that to impersonate you in a mobile banking
           | application through biometric authentication. It's getting
           | pretty popular in my country (I think it's required by law or
           | something).
        
       | hiisukun wrote:
       | Some interesting tidbits:
       | 
       | * There's a sortof hidden/unlabelled button - did you press it?
       | 
       | * Did you notice the nickname you were given, slowly building up
       | over time?
       | 
       | * Do you have resting sad face? Or resting happy face?
        
         | Hamuko wrote:
         | > _Do you have resting sad face? Or resting happy face?_
         | 
         | Or a resting angry face.
        
         | toyg wrote:
         | It might not be the best at dealing with facial hair. I was
         | smiling most of the time and it said I was sad and disgusted by
         | the doggie.
        
           | tinco wrote:
           | It said I was said while looking at the doggy, but I think it
           | was because I was trying to keep up with the messages it
           | displayed while rendering the doggy and one of the messages
           | said something about it trying to determine whether I am
           | Donald Trump, which must've increased my frown a bit :P
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | vhodges wrote:
       | Hehe... I wrote a FB app (circa 2008) called How Normal Am I? -
       | it got pretty popular for the time.
        
       | kypro wrote:
       | Well executed.
       | 
       | I was aware of most of the data protection and privacy concerns
       | presented, but I wasn't aware facial recognition system are being
       | used as widely as suggested here.
       | 
       | If these systems ever become widely adopted I might seriously
       | consider obscuring my face in public.
       | 
       | Here in the UK I've noticed over the last year or so many
       | supermarket self checkouts have been fitted with cameras and
       | screens. I'm not naive enough to believe I wasn't being recorded
       | previously, but I can't help but find this trend of sticking a
       | camera directly in my face whenever I'm trying to make a purchase
       | extremely insulting and violating to my sense of privacy. Now
       | after watching this I have almost no doubt that facial
       | recognition software is installed on these systems.
       | 
       | I've spoken to other people about the rudeness of this but most
       | people seem to think it's fine. Perhaps I'm just weird and more
       | bothered about this stuff than most people. If sticking a camera
       | in someone's face when they're trying to purchase something in a
       | pharmacy isn't going too far though I do wonder if the average
       | person would really care about anything presented here.
        
         | throwaway1777 wrote:
         | Shops and many other places have had video cameras for decades
         | to deter theft and crime so people are used to it.
        
           | kypro wrote:
           | They're completely different. This is solely for intimidation
           | purposes.
           | 
           | Cameras previously would show a wide angle view of the store
           | so you can see when someone put something under their jacket,
           | etc. I can understand and accept this.
           | 
           | In comparison these new cameras have a very swallow angle of
           | view, they're zoomed in on your face and they're in portrait.
           | They would be completely useless if you wanted to see if
           | someone was, say, putting something under their jacket at
           | checkout.
           | 
           | These are there to purposefully record your face and let you
           | know that they're doing that full colour and HD whether you
           | like it or not. It's vile and extremely rude. I've never
           | signed an agreement accepting such an obtrusive and
           | unreasonable violation of my privacy when I enter a
           | supermarket - at least online I'd have to accept T&Cs before
           | placing my order.
        
             | emsixteen wrote:
             | 100% agreed on this, and have no idea how to tackle it.
        
               | adolph wrote:
               | Ideas to tackle it:
               | 
               | Wear your covid mask, sunglasses and sunhat everywhere.
               | Also put heel inserts in your shoes to change your
               | height/walking gait. Or just go full privacy burka with a
               | headshape altering chef's hat or mitznefet.
        
               | lowercased wrote:
               | Stop shopping at those places? But... if you have stuff
               | from them delivered, should you turn the tables and have
               | your own face recog stuff turned on them?
        
               | danudey wrote:
               | You're not turning the tables on them, you're turning the
               | tables on the random gig economy worker who got assigned
               | your delivery. It's not like the CEO of the pharmacy
               | chain is delivering your case of red bull or something.
        
               | ldite wrote:
               | Put a bag over the camera before beginning your
               | transaction!
        
               | jonhohle wrote:
               | I was somewhat hoping full face mask/helmet wearing would
               | become in vogue in the past two years with all of the
               | masking requirements like we see in so many sci-fi shows
               | and movies. Algorithms would move to gate analysis or
               | other things, but at least facial recognition could be
               | crossed off.
               | 
               | If a air born pandemic can't move society in that
               | direction, I fear that we'll never get to our perpetually
               | masked future.
        
             | jrimbault wrote:
             | > These are there to purposefully record your face and let
             | you know that they're doing that full colour and HD whether
             | you like it or not.
             | 
             | I believe (?) this, as it is stated above, would be illegal
             | in France under the current laws. You have to consent to be
             | the _subject_ of photography in a public place.
             | 
             | Of course, advocates of such systems would argue against
             | that easily.
        
               | vanattab wrote:
               | Really? Security cameras are illegal in france?
        
               | BeetleB wrote:
               | In the US, this is solved by posting signs that recording
               | is in progress and by entering you consent.
        
             | tfussell wrote:
             | My understanding is that these aren't for intimidation but
             | rather to reduce theft by giving people an outside view of
             | themselves. A mirror can also serve this purpose, but may
             | be more difficult to fit in certain spaces. If this is
             | correct, then these cameras aren't recording, just
             | displaying the image directly on the screen. Here's an
             | article about it
             | https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/et-
             | commentary/mir...
        
               | jaywalk wrote:
               | All of the ones I've seen specifically say "RECORDING IN
               | PROGRESS" on the screen. Could they be lying? Sure, but I
               | doubt they are.
        
             | daniel-cussen wrote:
             | I went to a Walmart subsidiary recently, called Lider, and
             | they pulled every bitchvictim move the could pull. More in
             | fact, I now legally have standing to sue for abduction for
             | April 17, 2022 15:49:22 hour at the Lider at 560 Merced
             | (which gives receipts as Walmart) and sent six guards at me
             | claiming I didn't pay, herding me back to their grounds
             | where they have total editorial control over their cameras
             | --but none were interested in looking at a receipt. I
             | started screaming "If you accuse me of theft you have to
             | call the real police!" And a pharmacist across the street
             | heard me and called my family, they showed up with a lawyer
             | who agreed it was highly abusive of their power (these guys
             | wore clothes that said SWAT).
             | 
             | At that point, if the supermarket will accuse me of theft
             | despite paying, DUDE! Everyone has the moral authority to
             | steal from Lider. Lider toes the line of theft literally
             | down to the micrometer (ie shaving microns of plastic) and
             | prostitutes lawyers to say they never steal. They steal,
             | but defend themselves legalistically, ie shitloads of
             | lawyers showing up doing bitch moves quoting laws that were
             | written by culpable serial rapists in the 1973 coup.
             | Economic theft.
             | 
             | If you're going to be falsely accused unconditionally
             | you're obliged to fulfill the accusation with real harm in
             | some way on the grounds that you will be persecuted anyway.
             | It's acting in self-defense, because false accusations of
             | violence are an exactly equivalent act of violence in the
             | opposite direction. And you can't let magic spells disarm
             | you, there's always going to be some conspiratorial threat
             | --just like 7 Walmart employees conspired against me that
             | day, the cashier CE. NEWEN and the 6 guards, all of whom
             | knew they were carrying out a crime.
             | 
             | I personally refuse to carry out this theft myself or
             | benefit from this because it would stain my heroism, but
             | they'll accuse anybody of stealing either way. I'll show up
             | to testify on your behalf if you quote me on this, as a
             | hero according to Roman Law from May 12, 2012, like in US
             | or in Chile which are based on Roman Law
             | 
             | I boycotted Lider, funny thing abduction, guess that's a
             | good description of their market power, they can do all
             | kinds of shit (though in America I was basically satisfied
             | with their business against Amazon), the only thing
             | limiting their total market dominance is the percent of
             | people they abduct. And I only boycott them 90%, that's the
             | trick, when they make a crazy effort to break they boycott
             | I yield in an un-constructive way.
             | 
             | Dude you can totally buy in like a crappy little store run
             | by immigrants which has no Facial Recognition. That's what
             | you have to do. Otherwise, go without. Live downtown. Else
             | you get HD deepfakes INCLUDING framing you as stealing from
             | them in their camera editing zone or, if you sue them,
             | making porn with your face like the kids in school do with
             | photoshop, cyberbullying. There's media blackout on that.
             | 
             | I talked about this abduction here:
             | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31306746
        
               | danudey wrote:
               | Your story is relevant and what you went through is
               | horrible, but you may want to practice telling it in a
               | clear and concise way. At first glance your post sounds
               | like a crazy person rant, and it would be unfortunate for
               | people to brush you off without actually reading your
               | post.
        
               | daniel-cussen wrote:
               | It wasn't horrible because I did something about it. It
               | wasn't a tragedy.
               | 
               | I am in fact practicing (EDIT: this came out wrong, I
               | meant attempting) clarity and concision. So listening to
               | other people's tragedies and what they went through--
               | which always comes out rant-like--is helping me tell my
               | piece the right way, with absolute adhesion to the truth.
               | 
               | Partly that's a scam, they show you a cartoon of a madman
               | and tell you "that's why he's mad, sweating, screaming,
               | shaking, accusing, because he's stupid" then after that
               | inb4, that poisoning of the well, nobody respects that
               | stereotype until it's you who's mad, sweating, screaming,
               | shaking, accusing, and being called stupid. And then it's
               | too late. First they came for the Jews right? Wrong,
               | first they came for the madmen, and perfected their
               | extermination techniques with them, and nobody said
               | anything, nobody visited them. And _then_ they came for
               | the Jews, and then everybody else. I remember it starting
               | with the Jews, in Holocaust museums it starts with
               | communists, in America it starts with Jews sometimes and
               | Socialists other times, it changes all the time. But it
               | never _ever_ starts with the mad (Although Communist is
               | close enough, they were thoroughly accused of being mad,
               | Salvador Allende did medical research on the subject to
               | vindicate them).
               | 
               | Putting it here in full, best I can do:
               | 
               | .
               | 
               | .
               | 
               | [0th they came for the ranting crazy persons
               | 
               | to figure out all the ins and outs of abduction and
               | execution
               | 
               | but I won't even include them in this poem
               | 
               | Because I was not and still am not a crazy person]
               | 
               | .
               | 
               | First they came for the Communists
               | 
               | And I did not speak out
               | 
               | Because I was not a Communist
               | 
               | .
               | 
               | Then they came for the Socialists
               | 
               | And I did not speak out
               | 
               | Because I was not a Socialist
               | 
               | .
               | 
               | Then they came for the trade unionists
               | 
               | And I did not speak out
               | 
               | Because I was not a trade unionist
               | 
               | .
               | 
               | Then they came for the Jews
               | 
               | And I did not speak out
               | 
               | Because I was not a Jew
               | 
               | .
               | 
               | Then they came for me
               | 
               | And there was no one left
               | 
               | To speak out for me
        
             | coding123 wrote:
             | Well, I'm covered I guess - still wearing a mask.
        
               | fuckcensorship wrote:
               | Wearing a mask will not protect you from facial
               | recognition technology:
               | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-
               | japan-...
        
               | danudey wrote:
               | > The technology firm had already been working on a
               | system to meet the needs of allergy sufferers who wear
               | masks
               | 
               | Yes, it's the needs of the _allergy sufferers_ that drove
               | this project from the start. Hi NEC, I wear a mask
               | because of allergies but I 'm worried that will prevent
               | private corporations and governments from tracking my
               | every move, can you fix this please?
        
           | nsv wrote:
           | The key difference here is that most CCTV up to this point
           | has not been high resolution enough to run facial detection
           | on.
        
             | april_22 wrote:
             | Yes but it wouldnt cost that much to replace those with
             | newer, higher resolution ones.
        
         | bko wrote:
         | I played around with Amazon's Rekognition software. I took one
         | of those youtube videos where someone takes a picture of
         | themselves every day for 10 years. It was fairly ideal
         | conditions (consistent lighting, same pose for the most part)
         | but the kid also went from 12 years old to 22, so his face
         | definitely changed a lot. I used the first image as the image
         | to compare the rest to (12 years old at the time), and I was
         | surprised that it got pretty much almost all of them with a
         | high degree of confidence (80%+). And the 80% ones were
         | terrible lighting, sunglasses or an image of his girlfriend he
         | slipped in there.
         | 
         | Even the sunglasses, beard, face paint, bad lighting or puberty
         | didn't throw off the model.
         | 
         | The open source dlib model was considerably worse, but AWS
         | Rekognition was incredible
         | 
         | https://mleverything.substack.com/p/how-facial-recognition-w...
        
           | april_22 wrote:
           | There was this one incident in China where the facial
           | recognition system mistaked the face of a chinese celebrity
           | on a bus for a jaywalker... so the system isn't perfect for
           | special conditions/environments yet. However I do believe
           | that results today are already outstanding and will only get
           | better.
           | 
           | https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/22/18107885/china-facial-
           | re... https://you.com/search?q=facial+recognition+in+china
        
             | bko wrote:
             | Funny you should say that. In another post I compared
             | sitting congressmen to convicted felons
             | 
             | - 440 images of congressmen
             | 
             | - 1,756 mugshots
             | 
             | - 10 mismatches (?) with 70+% certainty
             | 
             | The highest was 86%, but to be fair, I wouldn't be able to
             | tell you confidently for all of them that the convicts
             | aren't the same person. And under 80% should be suspect
             | anyway. It's just that you need to use the right
             | statistical methods when comparing a person to a large pool
             | because you'll have spurious matches.
             | 
             | https://mleverything.substack.com/p/how-facial-
             | recognition-w...
        
             | cbau wrote:
             | Wow, the more insane story to me here is that they flash
             | your face, name, and ID number on a public screen if you're
             | caught jaywalking. How dystopian.
        
         | Quarrelsome wrote:
         | I thought it was so people behind the till could do age checks
         | and bypass machine blocks without having to move.
        
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       | Wronnay wrote:
       | I tried different facial expressions and could influence the
       | model from a 8 to 9.
       | 
       | Kinda reminds me of SingStar where I scored better if I simply
       | sung louder - even if I sung a completely different text...
        
       | cardosof wrote:
       | Based on algorithms like those, my 6-7ish beauty score would stop
       | me from becoming a popular social media influencer if I wanted
       | to. Isn't that lovely!
        
       | Joeboy wrote:
       | I was not really prepared for being told how unattractive I am
       | this morning.
        
         | kleene_op wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | Hammershaft wrote:
           | Interesting! I thought it would be purely based on facial
           | symmetry.
        
             | jjoonathan wrote:
             | Bald guy here -- let me assure you, symmetry is not the
             | only factor, not for the algorithm and not for the people
             | it represents :)
        
             | mywittyname wrote:
             | I took off my glasses and jumped 2.5 points. If it were
             | measuring symmetry, that wouldn't happen.
        
           | altdataseller wrote:
           | I was a 6.3 but I felt pleasantly surprised because I
           | personally think I'm a 1.5
        
             | szatkus wrote:
             | Same. Their algorithm is broken.
        
             | failedengineer wrote:
             | I got a 4.8... the model also told me I lied about my age
             | by nearly 20 years, so that's nice. I'm a very young
             | looking ugly.
        
               | khendron wrote:
               | Same. It shaved 8 years off of me, and then called me
               | ugly.
        
             | rhexs wrote:
             | I'm wondering if this is scaled so 5 is quite low and 1-5
             | should be non-existent. Giving someone a 1 vs a "5" feels a
             | little mean.
        
               | blobbers wrote:
               | ... I got a 5. When I smiled it bumped me up to 5.5
               | 
               | Fwiw, telling someone a 5 is a 1 is even meaner.
               | 
               | :-/
        
               | rhexs wrote:
               | Hey, I was 5 myself, no need to take offense. We can be
               | low self-esteem buddies.
        
               | blobbers wrote:
               | My self-esteem is fine! A 5 is not bad : half of people
               | are prettier than me, half are less pretty. But calling a
               | "5" a "1" is a little mean, no? ;-) Don't really care.
        
               | Joeboy wrote:
               | Sorry to break it to you, but I'm pretty sure the wording
               | on the site (which I don't have open anymore) suggested 5
               | was below the "normal" range, which presumably means it's
               | well below the median. I'd be extremely happy to hear
               | some more flattering interpretation.
        
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           | rossdavidh wrote:
           | That's actually fairly similar to how humans would be
           | influenced by showering, shaving, etc. so in some ways that's
           | pretty impressive.
        
           | jeroenhd wrote:
           | I'm also reasonably sure other factors also influence these
           | algorithms. Hair style, framing, lighting, the clothes found
           | on your shoulders, angle, distortion by the camera lens, and
           | most importantly, similarity to high-scoring faces in the
           | source data set.
        
         | vanderZwan wrote:
         | Then you're missing the point the website makes about this and
         | other algorithms like it being extremely unreliable. There are
         | tons of biases in the training data, and not just
         | ethnic/cultural ones mentioned. For starters, you're comparing
         | a crappy webcam to a model that in all likelihood is based on
         | people's best selfies.
         | 
         | The model tries to fit you into a very narrow niche. On top of
         | that it will do so poorly.
        
       | MrBlueIncognito wrote:
       | Apparently there's a score of 10.1 too :D
        
       | cpfohl wrote:
       | This was cool. Well done.
        
       | rossdavidh wrote:
       | This web page is a sycophant. It told me I looked 15 years
       | younger than I do, and said my attractiveness was several points
       | higher than empirical evidence from my 54 years of life have told
       | me is the case. But it did also call me a liar, so not totally a
       | sycophant I guess.
        
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       | drakonka wrote:
       | This is very well done! Really fun data to draw people in coupled
       | with genuinely interesting, educational voice-over.
        
       | cocochanel wrote:
       | more attractive than 100% of the spice girls. i'll take that :)
        
       | lom wrote:
       | Beauty, age, gender and BMI are all just `...` for me ?
       | 
       | Also sad to hear that my life expectancy is only 58
        
         | tinco wrote:
         | It bases your life expectancy on your IP address... where do
         | you live that has an average life expectancy of 58?
        
           | dan1234 wrote:
           | Not sure what db they're using for geolocating ips, but mine
           | was miles off (thought I was US, but actually Europe, so not
           | even the right registry!).
        
       | fnands wrote:
       | My result: 45% Normal: "Pretty strange, in a sexy way."
       | 
       | Thanks, I guess? Got pretty close on age underestimated my BMI a
       | little.
        
       | cosmojg wrote:
       | Time to get laser eye surgery.
        
       | Madmallard wrote:
       | It said I was way heavier than I was, way younger than I was, and
       | way more attractive than I am. All the while I was staring into
       | it with good lighting. Me thinks it is not useful.
        
         | Hamuko wrote:
         | It is useful when you think about that you might actually be
         | evaluated like this in the future.
        
       | systoll wrote:
       | Beauty score of 10.5 out of ten?
       | 
       | I'll thank our AI overlords for the compliment, but I don't think
       | I'm _off the charts_ attractive.
        
       | whoomp12342 wrote:
       | How normal am I?
       | 
       | > So! Lets talk about your face
       | 
       | Nope nope nope nope I am gone.
        
       | lampshades wrote:
       | I scored a 9 in beauty you ugly fucks.
       | 
       | And my expression was happy, unlike all you normal ugly folk.
        
         | pnut wrote:
         | I got a 5.7 but can have any woman I desire in real life, so...
        
           | lampshades wrote:
        
         | focusedone wrote:
         | Showoff
        
         | oreilles wrote:
         | By moving my face to show my best profile, I managed to get a
         | 10.1 in beauty. Yes, point 1. Don't know if the algorithm was
         | being sarcastic.
        
         | dan1234 wrote:
         | 9.4 here, which made me wonder if Apple's new webcams add some
         | beautifying filters?
         | 
         | The site also underestimated my age by 10 years (and then
         | accused me of lying about my age!).
        
         | Void_ wrote:
         | Am I on Reddit?
        
           | lampshades wrote:
           | If you just took a quick look at the address bar you'd see
           | that you are.
        
           | sushxbehshx wrote:
        
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