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| author | jules@lens <julescarbon@gmail.com> | 2019-04-18 16:55:14 +0200 |
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| committer | jules@lens <julescarbon@gmail.com> | 2019-04-18 16:55:14 +0200 |
| commit | 2e4daed06264f3dc3bbabd8fa4fc0d8ceed4c5af (patch) | |
| tree | 1a17bb4459776ac91f7006a2a407ca12edd3471e /site/content/pages/research | |
| parent | 3d32e5b4ddbfbfe5d4abeda57ff200adf1532f4c (diff) | |
| parent | f8012f88641b0bb378ba79393f277c8918ebe452 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of asdf.us: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 |