Comment on AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face, Researchers Find

Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  you’re putting mental traits in the same bucket as political leaning?

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are both mentalities.

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are both mentalities

      Who defines political orientation as a property of the brain?

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So is crime, ultimately both stem from a sense of right and wrong, or lack of it.

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Phrenology is bullshit. Race has been shown to correlate with political leaning several times and it’s encoded as facial attribute.

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Absolutely not, social status yes, but oppression of a race, doesn’t mean the race has a tendency, only that they are pressured into a social status that has that tendency.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It turns out that people in similar situations want similar things from their governments. It also turns out that a history of oppression based on race tends to put people from that race into a similar situation. And so on.

        The correlation isn’t coming from anything specific to the face, but clues about what demographic that individual could be from.

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