Christian Heilmann

“How normal am I” is an excellent security and privacy resource about Artificial Intelligence on the web

Thursday, October 8th, 2020 at 9:39 pm

https://www.hownormalami.eu is amazing.

Funded by the EU, it asks you to share your camera and then continues to tell you what different “AI” algorithms think of you – age, gender, BMI and so forth. It shows a video at the same time explaining what is being analysed and how these algorithms fail. It does some more clever things in terms of privacy but I don’t want to spoil it. If you want to get an insight into what is being recorded of you and how skewed the information is, this is a great resource. Thanks to Emily Holweck for sending it to me.

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