bashford: Greg Borenstein pointed FaceTracker at Matt Jones’ Hello Little Fella Flickr group. An exploration of machine pareidolia. I’m glad someone has tried this. After reading and re-reading Gibson’s Zero History in which an “ugly shirt” trips up the indexing of facial recognition software, I began to wonder what kinds of patterns would “distract” that kind of surveillance.

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Greg Borenstein pointed FaceTracker at Matt Jones’ Hello Little Fella Flickr group.

An exploration of machine pareidolia.

I’m glad someone has tried this. After reading and re-reading Gibson’s Zero History in which an “ugly shirt” trips up the indexing of facial recognition software, I began to wonder what kinds of patterns would “distract” that kind of surveillance.

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