News: Terrorist or pedophile? Software knows by analyzin your face

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Terrorist or pedophile? This start-up says it can out secrets by analyzing faces

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An Israeli start-up says it can take one look at a person’s face and realize character traits that are undetectable to the human eye.

Faception said it’s already signed a contract with a homeland security agency to help identify terrorists. The company said its technology also can be used to identify everything from great poker players to extroverts, pedophiles, geniuses and white collar-criminals.

“We understand the human much better than other humans understand each other,” said Faception chief executive Shai Gilboa. “Our personality is determined by our DNA and reflected in our face. It’s a kind of signal.”

Faception has built 15 different classifiers, which Gilboa said evaluate with 80 percent accuracy certain traits. The start-up is pushing forward, seeing tremendous power in a machine’s ability to analyze images.

Yet experts caution there are ethical questions and profound limits to the effectiveness of technology such as this.

“Can I predict that you’re an ax murderer by looking at your face and therefore should I arrest you?” said Pedro Domingos, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington and author of “The Master Algorithm.” “You can see how this would be controversial.”

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There are challenges in trying to use artificial intelligence systems to draw conclusions such as this. A computer that is trained to analyze images will only be as good as the examples it is trained on. If the computer is exposed to a narrow or outdated sample of data, its conclusions will be skewed. Additionally, there’s the risk the system will make an accurate prediction, but not necessarily for the right reasons.

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Satan

Cherish

I'm not sure what to think...

Itskorbitch

isnt this basically what minority report is about???

hooky

Rise up precrime, rise, this is the beginning

Big Brother could use this though, there's been so many duds in the last few casts.

Homogenic

I don't get it... what is their method?

Courtney Love

This doesn't sound good ethically at all tbh

Samuel

..what

Grumpy Gills

Hollywood, high school teachers and priest are shook

Guero

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Originally posted by hooky

Rise up precrime, rise, this is the beginning

Big Brother could use this though, there's been so many duds in the last few casts.

16 contestants enter the house to try to figure out who the pedophile is.

TWIST: All 16 are pedophiles. Every time they vote a suspected pedophile off, they put their face on the software. The software scans their face and the machine reads "PEDOPHILE!" in a demonic voice. The police show up and arrest each contestant, one by one each week.

NeverSincerely

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Originally posted by Grumpy Gills

Hollywood, high school teachers and priest are shook

BadMonster

It's fiction + if that software would say you're an ax murdered, it doesn't mean you have killed anyone or you will... it mostly depends on if you're ever triggered, this is dangerous + ********

velocity

what is this nonsense. i don't believe something like this is possible.

Callum

Opacho

Badger

I'm sceptical

Satan

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Originally posted by Guero

16 contestants enter the house to try to figure out who the pedophile is.

TWIST: All 16 are pedophiles. Every time they vote a suspected pedophile off, they put their face on the software. The software scans their face and the machine reads "PEDOPHILE!" in a demonic voice. The police show up and arrest each contestant, one by one each week.

Caesar

how is this possible ddd

Jan

This is extreme ********.

In the 19th century there was a man called Cesare Lombroso who believed that some people are genetically more likely to commit crimes than others. According to him, traits possessed by those people were: being left-handed, having scars or huge birthmarks or a small forehead. This has never been proven in any way to be even remotely true and this Israeli research is screaming some fascist pseudo-ideology. Lowkey I'm not surprised given how they treat Palestinians.

princedonte

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Originally posted by Jan

This is extreme ********.

In the 19th century there was a man called Cesare Lombroso who believed that some people are genetically more likely to commit crimes than others. According to him, traits possessed by those people were: being left-handed, having scars or huge birthmarks or a small forehead. This has never been proven in any way to be even remotely true and this Israeli research is screaming some fascist pseudo-ideology. Lowkey I'm not surprised given how they treat Palestinians.

Agreed this is way too far.