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Wait a minute, this sounds suspiciously familiar... I think I heard about the psudoscience of a government measuring the size of people's heads to try to find out their ethnicity... somewhere in Rwanda... 🧐
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There was also a German fella that got up to similar hijinks awhile back.
Me and my hammer would be happy to offer our retrophrenological services to any executives looking to improve their performance and personality (painkillers not included).
Measles, theocratic government, phrenology: everything old is new again.
I'm not sure we're going to make it y'all.
"If he's black, get him out of here"
Bringing back racism and good vibes under "scientific principle."
Disturbing. What is the proposed mechanism here? Or is it unknown?
They just use the buzzword "AI", but in reality it's probably going to be a machine learning algorithm.
Take the dataset, split out the groups of people you do/don't want to hire based on whatever criteria, train the model to be more likely to pick faces with characteristics from the "do hire" group, and less likely to pick those from the "don't hire" group.
Then, use it on real people, and it will provide similar outcomes based on faces.
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Bro has the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter
That image reminds me a meme from "Scientific diagrams that look like shitposts". It was titled something like "Mask of Damascus(?)/Triagones(?) - Acquire it (from a prisoner(?)) with a scimitar!"
Ooh yay, more ways for employer's AI to autoreject people! How fun!