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Me 10 years ago: probably would have played along with the profile picture aging meme going around on Facebook and Instagram
Me now: ponders how all this data could be mined to train facial recognition algorithms on age progression and age recognition
Me now: ponders how all this data could be mined to train facial recognition algorithms on age progression and age recognition
Most common rebuttal in my mentions: "That data is already available. Facebook's already got all the profile pictures."
Of course. And I'm not trying to say this is a crisis or that it's inherently dangerous. But just for fun, let's play this out.
Of course. And I'm not trying to say this is a crisis or that it's inherently dangerous. But just for fun, let's play this out.
Let's just imagine that you wanted to, say, train a facial recognition algorithm on age-related characteristics. You'd ideally want a broad and rigorous data set with lots of people's pictures. It'd help if you knew they were taken a fixed number of years apart — say 10 years.
