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https://medium.com/@socialcreature/ai-and-the-american-smile-76d23a0fbfaf>
"Imagine a time traveler journeyed to various times and places throughout human
history and showed soldiers and warriors of the periods what a “selfie” is."
"There are 18 images in the Reddit slideshow and they all feature the same
recurring composition and facial expression. For some, this sequence of smiling
faces elicits a sense of warmth and joyousness, comprising a visual narrative
of some sort of shared humanity (so long as one pays no attention to the
incongruousness of Spanish Conquistadors smiling happily next to Aztec
warriors. Awkward.) But what immediately jumped out at me is that these
AI-generated images were beaming a secret message hidden in plain sight. A
steganographic deception within the pixels, perfectly legible to your brain yet
without the conscious awareness that it’s being conned. Like other AI
“hallucinations,” these algorithmic extrusions were telling a made up story
with a straight face — or, as the story turns out, with a lying smile."
"How we smile, when we smile, why we smile, and what it means is deeply
culturally contextual. In the 2018 Nautilus essay, “What a Russian Smile
Means,” French-American journalist Camille Baker writes about how the meaning
of a smile differs across societies."
Via
Garbage Day: Managing the cringe
https://www.garbageday.email/p/managing-the-cringe
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
