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Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Meme Could Train Facial Recognition Algorithms On Age Progression, Age Recognition (wired.com)
If you've spent any time on social media lately, you've probably noticed a trend where users are posting their then-and-now profile pictures, mostly from 10 years ago and this year. While this "10 Year Challenge" appears harmless, founder of KO Insights and the author of Tech Humanist, Kate O'Neill, says all this data "could be mined to train facial recognition algorithms on age progression and age recognition." She adds: "It's worth considering the depth and breadth of the personal data we share without reservations." From the report: Imagine that you wanted to train a facial recognition algorithm on age-related characteristics, and, more specifically, on age progression (e.g. how people are likely to look as they get older). Ideally, you'd want a broad and rigorous data set with lots of people's pictures. It would help if you knew they were taken a fixed number of years apart -- say, 10 years. Sure, you could mine Facebook for profile pictures and look at posting dates or EXIF data. But that whole set of profile pictures could end up generating a lot of useless noise. People don't reliably upload pictures in chronological order, and it's not uncommon for users to post pictures of something other than themselves as a profile picture. A quick glance through my Facebook friends' profile pictures shows a friend's dog who just died, several cartoons, word images, abstract patterns, and more. In other words, it would help if you had a clean, simple, helpfully-labeled set of then-and-now photos.
What's more, for the profile pictures on Facebook, the photo posting date wouldn't necessarily match the date that the picture was taken. [...] Through the Facebook meme, most people have been helpfully adding that context back in (e.g. "me in 2008, and me in 2018"), as well as further info, in many cases, about where and how the pic was taken (e.g. "2008 at University of Whatever, taken by Joe; 2018 visiting New City for this year's such-and-such event"). In other words, thanks to this meme, there's now a very large data set of carefully curated photos of people from roughly 10 years ago and now. In closing, Kate says it's not necessarily bad that someone could use your Facebook photos to train a facial recognition algorithm -- it's inevitable. "Still, the broader takeaway here is that we need to approach our interactions with technology mindful of the data we generate and how it can be used at scale."
What's more, for the profile pictures on Facebook, the photo posting date wouldn't necessarily match the date that the picture was taken. [...] Through the Facebook meme, most people have been helpfully adding that context back in (e.g. "me in 2008, and me in 2018"), as well as further info, in many cases, about where and how the pic was taken (e.g. "2008 at University of Whatever, taken by Joe; 2018 visiting New City for this year's such-and-such event"). In other words, thanks to this meme, there's now a very large data set of carefully curated photos of people from roughly 10 years ago and now. In closing, Kate says it's not necessarily bad that someone could use your Facebook photos to train a facial recognition algorithm -- it's inevitable. "Still, the broader takeaway here is that we need to approach our interactions with technology mindful of the data we generate and how it can be used at scale."
Facebook is over 14 years old. They already have a series of photos showing people ageing more than 10 years.
They are evil, untrustworthy and despicable, but this current program is in NO way an additional threat. They do not need to use this data for age regression algorithms, they already have the necessary data.
Stop complaining about people feeding the baby Dragon - it is already fully grown and eating whole herds.
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Of course by publicly sharing lies, I mean grossly excessive exaggeration, with humour and relational database poisoning. So for me preferred gender Bungil, preferred pronoun cheeky bastard, preferred web mail server Yandex because and only because it's RUSSIAN (and so I end up in UK and US Russian statistics are mwa hah hah Russian sourced). My likes and dislikes, well being a moody bastard, entirely dependent upon my moods, it could be any thing at any time, like or dislike, depending upon the story I wish to tell at that time.
You 'MUST', absolutely 'MUST', treat the public internet as a fantasy game you play for fun and never, 'NEVER' ever to be taken seriously. The public internet, the place of grossly excessive exaggeration, slander and insults, purposeful offence, silly lies, empty truths, endless distortions of reality, not just about yourself but everything around you, mocking beliefs, creating beliefs, lies about beliefs, if it amuses be mysandrist, misogynist, prejudiced and racist all at the same time.
Work hard at making fun of internet social media, have as much fantasy fun with it as you can and poison those relational databases in every way you can. Invent genders, pronouns, religions, all new 'isms', be an SJF a social justice freak and freak the fuck out of all the brass rod up khyber pass (cockney rhyming slang) types, have them all huffing and puffing, chest pumping and frothing at the mouth and laugh at them, mock them and laugh at them some more.
Take the internet too seriously and you will kill us all, treat it like a joke and a fun fantasy place to play and we will live much more happily, don't be a dick, treat the internet like it is a big ole massive bag of dicks, don't become one of them, mock the fuck out of them (PS equal opportunity, there are just as many dick brained wamen as there are dick brained alpha males (apparently dog boys by inclination), the are less of the 'other gender' dick brains but only because there are lot less 'other genders' but probably a much higher proportion in that particular group, lots of real bitches, which I am sure they would agree with, well the normies amongst them).
Lie all over the public real name based internet, it is what it is for and the only thing it is good for, fuck the public ego strokers, the internet poseurs of no real value, greedy and shallow in equal measure.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
For fuck's sake, people..
Sounds good, except....
Half of these 10 years later pics are now memes. Good luck filtering them out.
I've only seen a few that were actually 10 years. Most are more like 7-8 years. You don't know the actual time span.
People are selectively choosing what pictures to compare. There's a lot of bias in what is being chosen.
Filters, filters, filters. 10 years ago they weren't as common, or they were simple instragram-like color filters. Now they are actively distorting the geometry of people's faces, smoothing blemishes, making their eyes subtly larger, etc.
In other words is a bunch of crap data that is totally uncontrolled. Not exactly what you want to be training algorithms on.
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Illegally immigration is a red herring. It's fully lawful "guest worker" (unwelcome guest) programs that are driving down wages for American workers while enriching a handful of scumbags.