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

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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  sigh

  The news:

  So, in conclusion: If your face is large, you’re a conservative; if it’s skinny, you’re a liberal; and facial recognition is bad—we all know that. That seems to be all you need to know.

  The paper:

  Our results, suggesting that stable facial features convey a substantial amount of the signal, imply that individuals have less control over their privacy. The algorithm studied here, with a prediction accuracy of r = .22, does not allow conclusively determining one’s political views, in the same way as job interviews, with a predictive accuracy of r = .20, cannot conclusively determine future job performance.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So the headline is 100% wrong.

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    • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Only the words between AI and find. The rest of the headline is fine.

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  • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It almost seems like someone did a linear regression, when a logistic regression model would be more appropriate.

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  • brian@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s amusing to me is that they referred to the job interviewer having similar reliability, but didn’t say whether it was good or not. Purely let the bias of the article imply that they were highly reliable.

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bullshit. Phrenology/Craniology was shown to be 100% false 100 years ago.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are both mentalities.

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• bender223@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure, AI can do anything, but can it tell us why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch™️?

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  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sugar. It's the metric fucktons of sugar.

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  • londos@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?

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• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s the accuracy? About 50% AKA random chance?

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    about 98% 50% of the time

    jokes aside, this is just another clickbaity headline that distorts the actual conclusion of the study

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• slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is obviously a lie. The only thing you can tell about a person by looking at their face is whether they are a cop or not. More thumb shaped more likely they are a cop. /s

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• veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  According to this analysis—and, I have to warn you, it’s kinda funny—liberals and conservatives have markedly different facial morphology. Liberals have “smaller lower faces” and “lips and noses [that] are shifted downward,” and chins that “are smaller” than conservatives, researchers write. Researchers repeat the key conclusion later on: “liberals tended to have smaller faces.” 

  So, according to this theory, if you have a tiny face, you’re probably a progressive. Or, by contrast, if you have a big fat face, there’s a good chance you might be a Trump voter.

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “liberals tended to have smaller faces.” 

    Charlie Kirk begs to differ.

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• Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t believe it at all

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I believe it, I’m correct about it like 98% of the time too.

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not giving gizmodo a click, but I’d be happy to read the study if anyone has a link. Mostly I want to know if they controlled for weight. There is a correlation between urban, liberal, and healthy, and between rural, conservative, and overweight.

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/2024-65164-001.html

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Looks like they did control for those factors, but I didn’t keep reading as far as the exact methodology. Fascinating nonetheless!

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• mwalimu@baraza.africa ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We demonstrate that political orientation can be predicted from neutral facial images by both humans and algorithms, even when factors like age, gender, and ethnicity are accounted for. This indicates a connection between political leanings and inherent facial characteristics, which are largely beyond an individual’s control. Our findings underscore the urgency for scholars, the public, and policymakers to recognize and address the potential risks of facial recognition technology to personal privacy.

  “peer-reviewed” bullshit.

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• systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol, and people will gobble this up.

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can tell your political affiliation by looking out of my window: If the clouds are moving to the left…

  /s

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• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I recall studies that have found correlations to…maybe it was the size of brain structures? (Specifically the amygdala)

  I wouldn’t be surprised if there were something confounding that resulted in both a larger amygdala and some sort of change in facial structure.

  But given that this article misrepresents the findings of the article, I wouldn’t put too much weight on it.

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