lampsauce-facereadings

  1.  At the end of the Kyle McDonald reading, there were images of people’s faces burned onto toast as examples of how facial recognition software can be fooled. I think it is interesting to explore these edge cases because it is helps put the power of facial recognition in perspective: sure, it’s cool that this code can tell me from you, but it can’t tell me from a picture of me burned onto piece of bread.
  2. An idea that struck me from Joy Buolamwini’s Ted Talk is that as facial recognition gets more and more powerful, the edge cases mentioned before become a lot less funny; the implication of a piece of code not working for people with darker skin is that those people do not exist, which furthers inherent and existing biases in society.