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If I'm looking at a camera lens I'm not making eye contact. This isn't about broadcasting it's about videoconferences.
by niij 2y ago
If I'm looking at a camera lens I'm not making eye contact. This isn't about broadcasting it's about videoconferences.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoNo, you don't understand the definition of "eye contact". Contact, by definition, is when my eyes meet yours directly. It takes two to tango, and to maintain eye contact, it is necessary for both of us to cooperate. The camera is the eye. Anyone seeing video of me is seeing me through the eyes of a camera. Therefore, to "make eye contact" I look into the camera, not into arbitrary pixels. In videoconferencing, it's wholly irrelevant where my audience's eyes are located, whether they're even visible. In videoconferencing, our cameras are the eyes, and that's how to make eye contact, because when I see you on the screen looking into the camera, your eyes are directed towards mine seeing the screen. For over a hundred years, any subject of a camera has known that if you look into that camera lens, then your gaze will be perceived as "eye contact" to any viewers. Where do you look when you're taking a selfie? Or a wedding photographer is taking your photo? Do you look in the photographer's eyes? Do you stare at his flashbulb? That's fucking nuts! Why is this so hard to understand? If AI is directed to help us lie about a particular, very human, interaction cue, then is it any surprise we're a world full of autists and Asperger babies?
- niij 2y agoI don't even know how to respond to this. Your rants particularly near the end are borderline aggressive. This is not important. Have a good one.