A new peer-reviewed study says that facial recognition technology can accurately "read" a person's political affiliation just by looking at their face.

A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology can accurately assess a person’s political orientation by simply looking at that person’s blank, expressionless face. Read more…

  • nahuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    Machine learning assisted phrenology!

    History feels more and more cyclical every fucking day, I swear.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Yeah. I actually didn’t have “bring back Phrenology” on my “systemic regression into the dark ages” bingo card.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      Bumps on one’s skull is a far cry from facial features. We humans intake a wealth of data from faces.