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AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)

submitted 6 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology can accurately assess a person’s political orientation by simply looking at that person’s blank, expressionless face. Read more...

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[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"AI predicts your political affiliation based on the CURRENT stats." Fixed it.

This isn't intelligence. This is predictive intelligence based off a set of factors. This is how racism, sexism, etc make their way into somehow being interpreted as factual or predictive of a groups behaviors.

Just because 90% of X people in Y group do Z thing, doesn't mean you can assume that people of group Y ALL do Z thing and/or would continue to do Z thing or even be a part of that group for long. The 8% false positive or false negative ratio still equates to hundreds of thousands of people being misrepresented or made assumptions on.

This is a measurement of factors at a specific slice of time and shouldn't be used to predict the future. It is a present, measurement tool. Not a future predictive tool to be used to define inherent truths or anything else other than "people right now who look like this generally are in this political group". Did they do any checks to verify that this doesn't change over time? Did they cross check this with global results, or was this just a specific country, etc etc.

Don't let these articles fool you, stay curious, stay fair!