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| author | Jules Laplace <julescarbon@gmail.com> | 2019-04-05 14:09:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Jules Laplace <julescarbon@gmail.com> | 2019-04-05 14:09:33 +0200 |
| commit | f3d5e34d428e628f8561f8a4ee43a66b0088d2e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 91a388f2aa9d657bd6b34f490ec9f9eb4151d549 /site/content/pages/research/00_introduction | |
| parent | 70ff1befd2f88fc87efbc0e9a62a9b9b09eb5741 (diff) | |
| parent | 7cc03d5914ce3fb634516d27973ccb69ee63fe8d (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:adamhrv/megapixels_dev
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diff --git a/site/content/pages/research/00_introduction/index.md b/site/content/pages/research/00_introduction/index.md index bcb3d57c..91b87b18 100644 --- a/site/content/pages/research/00_introduction/index.md +++ b/site/content/pages/research/00_introduction/index.md @@ -15,7 +15,15 @@ authors: Megapixels + Posted: Dec. 15 + Author: Adam Harvey +Facial recognition is a scam. +During the last 20 years commericial, academic, and governmental agencies have promoted the false dream of a future with face recognition. This essay debunks the popular myth that such a thing ever existed. + +There is no such thing as *face recognition*. For the last 20 years, government agencies, commercial organizations, and academic institutions have played the public as a fool, selling a roadmap of the future that simply does not exist. Facial recognition, as it is currently defined, promoted, and sold to the public, government, and commercial sector is a scam. + +Committed to developing robust solutions with superhuman accuracy, the industry has repeatedly undermined itself by never actually developing anything close to "face recognition". + +There is only biased feature vector clustering and probabilistic thresholding. ### Motivation |