Re:Cameras that guess age and sex are coming to store shelves
by chucky_z on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:14AM
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Everything. Everything that does this thinks I'm Female. I am not Female.
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Re:Cameras that guess age and sex are coming to store shelves
by maxxxxx on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:24AM
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Facebook has me as “African American cultural affiliated” but when you look at me you would think that I am a white middle aged male.
Maybe they know more about us than we do? :)
Re:Cameras that guess age and sex are coming to store shelves
by bufferoverflow on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:19AM
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So? It probably means you look like a typical female.
They probably don't care for 100% accuracy. Most people's sex is trivial to identify. Age is much harder.
Re:Cameras that guess age and sex are coming to store shelves
by areoform on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:28AM
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You assume that the tech has a high accuracy rate. Facial recognition tends to fail for African Americans, unusual bone structure (remember how neural nets thought that seemingly random noise was a banana?) or tricks of lighting. So no he probably doesn’t and even if that was the case, this is invasive and not okay.
It is invasive for the following reasons, the technology is pushing to you instead of letting you choose how to interact with it. You can’t opt out or not consent to the tech. It poses a significant barrier to usability because what if there’s an offer for men chained to faces that the system thinks are male or vice versa? Now he’ll have to prove his masculinity to an algorithm or ask someone to intercede? That’s additional friction on top.
Pushing not pulling seems deeply unethical and counter productive.