{"id":6803,"date":"2020-10-27T20:47:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T00:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/?p=6803"},"modified":"2020-10-27T20:47:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T00:47:22","slug":"lampsauce-facereadings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/shivanapandrew-cmu-edu\/10\/27\/lampsauce-facereadings\/","title":{"rendered":"lampsauce-facereadings"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>\u00a0At the end of the Kyle McDonald reading, there were images of people&#8217;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&#8217;s cool that this code can tell me from you, but it can&#8217;t tell me from a picture of me burned onto <em>piece of bread<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>An idea that struck me from Joy Buolamwini&#8217;s Ted Talk is that as facial recognition gets more and more powerful, the edge cases mentioned before become a lot less funny; <em>the implication<\/em> of a piece of code not working for people with darker skin <em>is that those people do not exist<\/em>, which furthers inherent and existing biases in society.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0At the end of the Kyle McDonald reading, there were images of people&#8217;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&#8217;s cool that this code &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/shivanapandrew-cmu-edu\/10\/27\/lampsauce-facereadings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;lampsauce-facereadings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6804,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions\/6804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}