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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

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 4y ago
How does a patchwork of APIs and open source pretrained models receive funding from the eu...
- gspr 4y ago
  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.
  - tokai 4y ago
    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.
  - JackFr 4y ago
    > they wanna use EU affiliation as a badge for respect for privacy or something like that. Literally my first thought.
- eurasiantiger 4y ago
  Here is the project funding information page. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/786641 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/786641

schleck8 4y ago

How does a patchwork of APIs and open source pretrained models receive funding from the eu...

gspr 4y ago
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.
- tokai 4y ago
  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.
- JackFr 4y ago
  > they wanna use EU affiliation as a badge for respect for privacy or something like that. Literally my first thought.
eurasiantiger 4y ago
Here is the project funding information page. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/786641 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/786641