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As someone with pretty good prosopagnosia, I am also unsettled and disturbed at all of y’all’s hardware acceleration for facial recognition. I was 30 before I
by brookst 7mo ago
As someone with pretty good prosopagnosia, I am also unsettled and disturbed at all of y’all’s hardware acceleration for facial recognition.
I was 30 before I realized that when people recognize each other, it’s not from clothes and hair, or voice, or some kind of cognitive memory like “Bob has big ears and a wide nose”.
So, while I’m sympathetic and supportive of concerns about AI glasses, please also realize that to a subset of the population (about 1% IIRC), most of you already have a weird and privacy-violating skill, right there in the neurons.
- analog31 7mo agoWe don't continuously share and sell the info we gather, and none of us have any hope of recognizing more than a tiny fraction of the population.
- Juliate 7mo agoComparing a natural ability to some kind of privacy-violating skill sounds a bit a hard sell. Kind of like selling hard won skills as some kind of gate keeping. Improving the quality of life of people cannot be done at the expense of the basic social needs of everyone else.
- brookst 7mo agoI wasn't saying any of the words you seem to be putting in my mouth. I was simply noting that there's a natural range of both abilities and expectations in this area, and it is a little entertaining that even the hint of a suggestion of an implication that maybe face recognition is perceived differently by different people provokes such a strong, fact-free response.
- Juliate 7mo agoI'm sorry if that sounded disparaging. I totally get that face recognition is an issue for some. And that some tech may be of help with that. But if said tech implies putting everyone at risk (because the privacy is not properly implemented in this tech, and because it is even obviously weaponised as it is today), it is a hard sell.