[ExI] physiognomy by AI

[William Flynn Wallace]

eye surgery?  to 'fix' epicanthal folds maybe?  bill w

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 4:34 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 May 2022 at 20:22, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Troublingly, some modern AI applications are delving into physiognomy, a
> set of pseudoscientific ideas that first appeared thousands of years ago
> with the ancient Greeks. In antiquity, Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician,
> based his decisions on accepting students on whether they “looked” gifted.
> To the philosopher Aristotle, bulbous noses denoted an insensitive person
> and round faces signaled courage.
> >
> > Recent research has tried to show that political leaning, sexuality, and
> criminality can be inferred from pictures of people’s faces.
> >
> > Political orientation. In a 2021 article in Nature Scientific Reports,
> Stanford researcher Michal Kosinski found that using open-source code and
> publicly available data and facial images, facial recognition technology
> can judge a persons’ political orientation accurately 68 percent of the
> time even when controlling demographic factors. In this research, the
> primary algorithm learned the average face for conservatives and liberals
> and then predicted the political leanings of unknown faces by comparing
> them to the reference images. Kosinski wrote that his findings about AI’s
> abilities have grave implications: “The privacy threats posed by facial
> recognition technology are, in many ways, unprecedented.”
> >
> > While the questions behind this line of inquiry may not immediately
> trigger an alarm, the underlying premise still fits squarely within
> physiognomy, predicting personality traits from face features.  (excerpt)
> >
> > from - geneticliteracyproject.com   bill w
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> (The link should be to geneticliteracyproject.org )
> The complete article is at
> <
> https://thebulletin.org/2022/05/is-your-face-gay-conservative-criminal-ai-researchers-are-asking-the-wrong-questions/
> >
> They are complaining about the misuse of AI in trying to validate junk
> science.
>
> Also consider the amount of plastic surgery that is available today.
> This makes physiognomy even less relevant.
> <
> https://www.pulse.com.gh/lifestyle/beauty-health/why-south-korea-is-the-plastic-surgery-capital-of-the-world/j7kyx8q
> >
> Quote:
> Why South Korea is the plastic surgery capital of the world
> Temi Iwalaiye   May 24, 2022
>
> In South Korea, being ugly, unconventionally attractive or even
> ordinary looking is a crime no one wants to be guilty of.
> About one-third of South Korean women between the ages of 19 and 29
> have undergone cosmetic surgery before.
> Plastic surgery is so popular in South Korea that 70% of High School
> students undergo eye surgery or receive it as graduation presents from
> family members.
> --------------------
>
> Some remarkable before and after photos in that article!
> Hmm, maybe a trip to South Korea is recommended......
>
>
> BillK
>
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