I am enchantress, witch
I am somebody mortal, a soul
I am a widow woman
an adult female, individual
I am skeptic, sceptic, doubter
I am somebody, someone, a soul
I am a face
I am mortal
I am an anomaly, an unusual person
An individual, a person, a mortal soul
I am a rester, a slumberer
I am a person
An individual
A somebody
A soul,
mortal
What the Internet has done to us.
My hacker husband pointed me toward a website that will probably be defunct by the time you get to it, if you try to go. In the words of the website’s creators:
[Imagenet] uses a neural network trained on the “Person” categories from the ImageNet dataset which has over 2,500 labels used to classify images of people.
Warning: ImageNet Roulette regularly returns racist, misogynistic and cruel results.
That is because of the underlying data set it is drawing on, which is ImageNet’s ‘Person’ categories. ImageNet is one of the most influential training sets in AI. This is a tool designed to show some of the underlying problems with how AI is classifying people.
I don’t think the returns on my various webcam captures were particularly misogynistic or racist, but they were…fascinating. They inspired the poem above. Here is what a machine thinks I am.
If it’s before Friday, September 27, 2019, you can find out for yourself what a machine might think you are.
