Ooooof. This is quite something from Massive Attack. Brutal activist art.
HT @alecm
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Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment
Massive Attack used live facial recognition technology on concertgoers, turning surveillance into provocative art that sparked debate about privacy.Gadget Review
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Vít Skalický
in reply to eclectech • • •From the concert video it looks more like a face *detection*, not recognition. Your name is not attached to the face as far as I can see in the video.
Looks wicked cool and disturbing anyway.
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Vít Skalický
in reply to Vít Skalický • • •reading the article carefully and watching videos from the concert, I'm confident there is no facial recognition involved. The article is wrong either out of ignorance or the author lying on purpose to get attention. And you are spreading it uncritically 🙁
But the show Massive Attack put on is cool and worth spreading even though it's not as sophisticated as people think (and they are not claiming it to be)
eclectech
in reply to Vít Skalický • • •@vitSkalicky Facial recognition is about gathering biometric data / images that can be compared against a database of faces.
They are very clearly gathering faces. These can then be compared to other databases to find other places you've been. That is surveillance.
The article does not seem to claim otherwise.
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Hypolite Petovan
in reply to eclectech • • •@eclectech I agree with @Vít Skalický, seeing the installation, I don't think there's any facial recognition, it doesn't try to identify individual people. Instead, it's running a face detection software with an AI (for a lack of better term) trained to identify general traits from faces.
I still understand the malaise, we like to think we're anonymous in a crowd, and just being singled out in such a display dispels that myth without even actually doing the thing people accuse it of.
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Schmaker
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