Where it could go “Black Mirror” wrong: Buczkowski said the electrical shock’s strength can be adjusted by the user and doesn’t actually hurt, though people who tried it reported being scared of being hurt. That’s actually what my algorithm has done and what we do every day scrolling through fitness, Golden Gate Bridge and food images.”ĪI-powered cameras that shock you into Instagram success (cont'd) I really enjoy the (response) describing an art degree as just learning the right rules. You can find more technical information about his project on his website.īuczkowski told SFGATE he didn’t conceive of the project as an elaborate trolling of people’s social-media obsessions, but reactions to it “actually made me think about portals like Instagram, creativity and why we enjoy certain things. The device learned what makes a likeable photo by inputting a dataset of reactions to over 17,000 of them. The device turns the human into a prosthetic more than anything, using electrical shocks to tell us when our camera lens is trained on a photo most likely to earn social-media likes – literally twitching our index finger into taking the photo. Peter Buczkowski developed an AI-powered camera within a camera grip with an appropriately “Black Mirror” name: Prosthetic Photographer. If only the character whose life unravels via social media in Black Mirror's " Nosedive" episode had consulted a German designer’s current art project. Leah Millis/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 14 of35ĪI-powered cameras that shock you into Instagram success
The company also found it easy to obtain account passwords and any photos the user had uploaded to the app. Where it could go “Black Mirror” wrong: We got a good look at the downside in February, when an Austrian company found various security flaws in an internet-controlled dildo made by Vibratissimo, called the “Panty Buster.” The most disturbing flaw was that a hacker could easily guess the link required in the app to take control of the vibrator, without the toy owner’s consent or knowledge.
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