Huh, the tweet the article referenced is five years old, I wonder if there’s been any advancement in facial recognition in that regard
Last I heard, the CCP did a bit of social engineering and got a load of TikTokkers to post videos in juggalo makeup in order to retrain their facial recognition software.
I don’t recall if it was successful, but it happened.
As an enjoyer of most of icp, this makes me laugh.
YO WERE MY DARK CARNIVAL INVERTEBROTHERS AT
MWCL
MMWCL!
Batman Beyond knew.
Abracadabra boom shacka dae
I’m Violent J, and I’m back like a vertebrae
vertebra is the singular form of vertebrae
which does not rhyme with day but rather dee or die
TL;DR of course sci-fi couldn’t have imagined how cool juggalos are, scifi is mostly written (and MORE importantly gate-kept) by man-babies with incredibly narrow views of reality, fuck sci-fi let’s go hang out with the juggalos…
Honestly other than just extrapolating out what technologies will facilitate the rise of dystopias (while being weirdly obsessed with the aesthetics of dystopias to the point of it being dysfunctional to the objectives of the narrative and fiction) what have sci-fi writers actually meaningfully imagined about the future in the western canon?
For all the mountains and mountains of sci-fi books and tv shows written I am not sure there is actually much to show for it except endless descriptions of how colonization, war and authoritarian power will be facilitated by future technologies (in a way that superficially claims to be subversive but is really just technology porn, politics be damned).
The only western/European sci-fi series of any significant popularity that I think grapples with anything meaningfully human about positive potentials of the future is Star Trek. Other scifis of course accomplish this in parts of their stories, or in peripheral stories and side series, but almost without fail they all circle back to the same 5 things a boomer dude can imagine a society of boring boomer dudes doing who worship technology and talk over women.
Murderbot is dope tho, I don’t say this critique to attack the wave of sci-fi that is written by diverse new authors that subverts the genre, just to say that the old guard of the genre should be trashed and thrown out the window in favor of these new authors who actually treat envisioning the human condition realistically as important…. to writing books about humans in the future…….
….sigh sorry I really think the classic sci-fi genre gets wayyyyyyyy too much of a pass for being a serious genre of art when it is written by a bunch of clowns who mainly used representations of human beings like action figures and G.I. Joe figurines, bending them in brutal and inhuman ways so that they carry out cool action sequences on the living room floor and reference cool technologies that will make their dad notice them and give them a hug for being smart. None of which is wrong unless you are claiming to write literature that illuminates deep things about the human condition with respect to the breadth of future possibilities.
Have you checked out Stanislaw Lem? Solaris is pretty interesting
I hate this so much.
That’s how the Juggernaut collective started
Fucking magnets. How do they work?
You’ll also need a silly walk to defeat gait recognition
I’m sure this could be negated with flowy clothing that contains adversarial patterns. At least for a while.
Like a big, flowy skirt that has a bunch of legs all over it
Bonus: Also helps avoid detection by sandworms.
Walk without rhythm.
It won’t attract the worm
Well that’s why they set up a ministry to manage the silly walks, to make sure they complied with gait recognition before they were used.
Maybe the whole point of Monty Python was to sketch out ways that humans could behave that would confuse and hugely throw off machine learning algorithms.
Talk about “poisoning the well” with AI training, all you have to do is 65% of the time make completely normal and rational intelligent choices and the other 35% be completely illogical and inscrutable. Any algorithm trained on you then, no matter how smart you are or how valuable your knowledge is, will inconsistently and abruptly resort to batshit crazy and unreliable choices and information. :)
The thousands and thousands of years we have nurtured sarcasm and absurdism in the garden of human culture has all been for this one true purpose…
I would say maybe John Cleese is an alien trying to save us, but Cleese is a dick no matter how funny the stuff he was involved in was and I would hope Aliens were much more open minded than he is.
Additionally: Los Payasos
Shadowrun also has the halloweeners
It seems that,
- The original OP did zero research
- Pondsmith is a prophet
Yo that’s actually pretty metal
My reaction when I see a piece of nicely machined aluminum.
This guy CNCs
https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Bozos
They have been part of the core Cyberpunk TTRPG rulebook since the 1980’s.
I don’t think so.
Exploitable
Replace top clown with normal person to show it finding that Juggalo
(Apparently that’s Violent J, next to his buddy… Shaggy 2 Dope)
That’s not doing facial recognition though, that’s a reverse image lookup. It’s a lot easier to find an exact match for a photo.
Shhhh they think they’ve outsmarted the shitpost. Let’s just let ‘em have this one. They could probably use the win.
Also William Gibson wrote about foiling facial recognition with makeup over thirty years ago.
Also Judge Dredd has clown folk who are essentially juggalos.
Also i think in Spook Country (but i’m not sure) he makes them use a t-shirt with an “ugly face” which is designed to disable facial recognition.
The Machine can never take our Fago. Woop woop.
WE’VE GOT A THEORY
ABOUT MAGIC
AND MIRACLES
Some years ago, Pussy Riot put out information on how to use Makeup to confound face detection algorithms.
On an unrelated note: This is probably going to be blocked in ML because I used the word “pussy”. I wonder why that instance has a problem with me mentioning that word. Could it be perhaps the name of a feminist anarchist group activity resisting domestic Russian oppression? No, I’m sure that’s a coincidence.
No, it’s because there’s no sex in the USSR.
AFAIK .ml doesn’t automatically block comments from other instances containing slurs, they only automatically block slurs from being posted by their own users.
I think it’s being rendered to us, let me test one that I know is on the filter:
removed
so it auto replaces with an italicized removed, what a bunc of b1t ches
Beat chess
That’s so removed
Stop trying to make removed happen
Hey, wanna removed?😳
I’m on ML and can read your comment without a problem. Let’s see if I can type it.
Pussy Riot
EDIT: No problem there.
I’m surprised! Good to know, ty.
says Pussy riot in the mirror 3 times as the clock strikes midnight
nervously waits (or excitedly? how big exactly is a riot of pussy? Big enough? How many hectares does the average Pussy Riot engulf?)
Yeah, .ml blocks all words potentially used as slurs so people don’t mention one band, lol
Not true. Here is the regex doing the blocking:
slur_filter_regex
: https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/siteIt’s not exactly secret.
“slur_filter_regex”:“(fag(g|got|tard)?\b|cock\s?sucker(s|ing)?|ni((g2,})[e3r]+(s|z)?|mudslime?s?|kikes?|\bspi(c|k)s?\b|\bchinks?|gooks?|bitch(es|ing|y)?|whor(es?|ing)|\btr(a|@)nn?(y|ies?)|\b(b|re|r)tard(ed)?s?)”
It was sarcasm, yeah
What if a farmer wants to join the instance and comments about waking up to the cock singing, finding the bitches in heat and gathering faggots from the yard
I didn’t see anything that would match on pussy there though
Exactly. That’s what I meant.