BIY: Believe It Yourself

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by Schiphol • 7 years ago

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munk-a• 7 years ago

This looked extremely exploitative to me (specifically, crystal magic style exploitative) but apparently it is just Art so I guess that's okay. I've known some family members that are easily taken in so I generally find supporting this sort of stuffs continued existence to be in poor taste since even if a particular device is constructed to be parodizing it tends to end up being used to relieve people of their savings.

Other than that I enjoy that it's trying to pull some non-western traditions into an exhibit being displayed in Vienna.

leggomylibro• 7 years ago

Yeah - as interesting as it is as an art piece, I hope nobody takes it seriously.

But hey, satire is at its best when you have to squint at it for a few beats to tell that it's a joke. As long as they don't actually sell stuff like this with the same marketing, what's the harm?

deanstag• 7 years ago

It will reinforce the beliefs of gullible people about the underlying superstitions. They might not purchase it, but they will read it without realizing it is satire, and move on feeling that such things exist as evidence for such beliefs.

shrimp_emoji• 7 years ago

This is some tech-worshipping post-apocalyptic Mechanimist shit.

YeGoblynQueenne• 7 years ago

Oh, this has been done before:

Automated Inference on Criminality using Face Images, Wu & Zhang, 2016, Arxiv.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.04135v2.pdf

Deep Neural Networks Are More Accurate Than Humans at Detecting Sexual Orientation From Facial Images, Kosinski & Wang, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2018.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/d...

Scientists Have Created an AI That Judges You by Your Looks, futurism.com.

https://futurism.com/scientists-have-created-an-ai-that-judg...

When artificial intelligence judges a beauty contest, white people win, qz.com.

https://qz.com/774588/artificial-intelligence-judged-a-beaut...

mpnordland• 7 years ago

FACE 2 ‘JETTATORE:’Our Facial recognition is trained on specific facial physiognomies of people that normally bring bad luck (known as Jettatore)

Congratulations you made an intentionally racist computer program.

sp332• 7 years ago

Yeah it says that in the second paragraph of the page. The projects here explicitly call out superstition and bias being built into the computers around us.

Copenjin• 7 years ago

An intentionally facetious art piece based on neapolitan(italian) folklore (and other countries I guess, indian/chinese guys please confirm), that everyone familiar with italian culture will recognize as such.

Didn't expect some of the messages I'm reading here, awww, guys...

rexpop3• 7 years ago

Hacker News readers have little appreciation for cultural nuance.

turingbike• 7 years ago

This is the funniest satire that has ever made it to the fp of this site. I was literally LOLing at the videos.

steve_avery• 7 years ago

This reminds me heavily of the strange technological world of "Maniac" on Netflix, especially the computer system Gertie!

I wish I could get one of these as a gift! They are hilarious.

BIY: Believe It Yourself

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