OK.
This is kind of scary.
I uploaded my profile pic to
This is a site, setup by a former Google employee to show you, how Google would interpret a picture of you.
The result is not 100 % accurate (e.g. that I could be targeted with alcohol ads, but I hardly ever drink), but found the exact location and enough to be worried if they analysed a set of, say, a dozen photos.
like this
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Mina
Unknown parent • • •@mattdm
Understanding irony and humour might not be strongest qualities of machine learning systems.
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Andreas Bulling
Unknown parent • • •Mina
in reply to Andreas Bulling • • •@abulling
Good for you!
@AbyssCannonball
Synabsolution ☕☕🍵
in reply to Mina • • •Google erkennt bei Fritze dem Kleingeist "Hobbies: […] conspiracy theories"
Passt.
Nur dass es leider keine Theorie ist, sondern reale Verschwörungs-Praxis, der sein Verein anhängt.
Hier nachzulesen→ullstein.de/werke/maenner-die-…
#maennerdiedieweltverbrennen
Männer, die die Welt verbrennen - Hardcover
Ullstein Buchverlage GmbHechopapa ☑️
in reply to Mina • • •Ich bin mit meinen allgemeinen Vorsichtsmaßnahmen recht zufrieden:
Targeted Ads:
Luxury fountain pens (Montblanc), Organic coffee beans (Death Wish Coffee), Hiking gear subscription box (Cairn), Vintage chess sets (House of Staunton), Streaming services (Netflix), Casual wear apparel (Uniqlo), Vacation packages (Booking.com), Energy drinks (Red Bull)
Es wird mir eine gewisse Nähe zu den Grünen aufgrund meiner Erscheinung zugeordnet. Mhm, wie Philip Amthor schau ich halt nicht aus...
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 • • •@Lazarou
Good for you!
JPL
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to JPL • • •@jpl
This is excellent, I'd say!
Chris-Evelyn
in reply to Mina • • •That is scary close. But why attack me like this 😢
„Her hobbies oscillate between reading, meticulous travel planning, attending local theater and compulsive news consumption, doomscrolling and persistent overthinking.“
Mina
in reply to Chris-Evelyn • • •@chris_evelyn
I got a similar diss:
"The individual, a transgender Caucasian in their 40s [...] could also be prone to binge-watching, and practices escapism."
Mina
Unknown parent • • •@felichsdakatze
The question is not, how useful or useless it is to you, but to corporations and institutions.
@AbyssCannonball
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Felichs
Unknown parent • • •@AbyssCannonball
Got location wrong on both sample pics, made wild assumptions on religious, political views, and ethnicity/citizenship. Things it can't possibly know. But it does make it's assertions confidently.
Seems kinda biased and useless to me.
Oblomov reshared this.
Ecolhombre ⏚
in reply to Mina • • •Cohnina
in reply to Mina • • •Thanks! This made my day - you have to use pictures of animals for some fun:
mendeddrum.org/@Cohnina/113978…
But, yes, you might feel personally attacked using a picture of yourself. Who else has the hobby of doomscrolling? 🤪 And where do I get this "Straw bale penguin crafting kit" it wants to advertise for me?
Cohnina (@Cohnina@mendeddrum.org)
The Mended DrumMina
in reply to Cohnina • • •@Cohnina
I love the animals idea!
Balu
in reply to Mina • • •myrmepropagandist
in reply to Mina • • •My results were wildly inaccurate. But, that's also annoying in a way. And it decided for two very different photos I was "lonely" and "religious" which I'm not, in fact I'm the opposite of those things.
It also thinks I'm broke but I just think it's racist basically.
Mina
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@futurebird
Inaccurate is kind of good, I believe.
Why am I not surprised at all that tech bro stuff makes racist assumptions?
myrmepropagandist
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •To be fair Facebook is better at serving targeted ads at me. It keeps showing me little gadgets made from titanium and early adopter gadgets of questionable utility. But, that is the kind of junk that I find tempting (last time I was there it was all skin products and makeup) So, somehow they know I like expensive little gadgets. "Better" in the sense that the products are "interesting" Still a waste of time and nothing I need.
And I like to buy gadgets from people I know best.
myrmepropagandist reshared this.
myrmepropagandist
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I think I will leave Facebook after next weekend's #monsterdon give the few people over there one more chance to jump over here and have some fun. The creepy AI images are starting to look normal to me. I don't want to stay immersed in it anymore even though I'll miss some of the people there.
I will just try texting and emailing them instead. Happily I've discovered that the people I know don't post often there. So I'm not missing much.
Joe Vinegar reshared this.
Mina
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@futurebird
I recently have rediscovered the joy of handwriting letters.
I even bought a lovely fountain pen for that.
Guy on the run
in reply to Mina • • •@futurebird
And they arrive at their destination?
If you are located anywhere near your server, then that would almost be a miracle.
Maggie Maybe
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@futurebird part of what made me decide to delete Facebook years ago is I realized that I wasn’t actually talking or texting with my friends as much because when we would talk it was a lot of “so this is what I’ve been up to” then “oh yeah I saw you post about that cool”.
I mean obviously with my really close friends there’s lots of laughing and gossiping and deeper discussions about whatever would have been on Facebook, but there’s no point in reaching out to tell someone something if they saw it on Facebook already, so there was less real contact with my friends, which was sad.
The only hard part was that I had to put people’s birthday in my actual calendar again and remember to pay attention to that because I don’t have Facebook reminding me anymore.
Mina
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@futurebird
Useless, but cute gadgets are also tempting to me.
Nina Kalinina
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Joe Vinegar reshared this.
No Gods , no Masters! RESIST
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in reply to Mina • • •🙈
Mina
in reply to ᴺⁱˡᶻ 🍸 • • •@nilz
😂
Lazy B0y
in reply to ᴺⁱˡᶻ 🍸 • • •now let’s go and get your avatar some „primate enrichment toys“ please ;)
@mina
Ben Haylock
in reply to Mina • • •!!
Mina
in reply to Ben Haylock • • •@zbender
If this isn't a low blow, I don't know, what is.
Fully operational gator system
in reply to Mina • • •I uploaded a picture of a laptop I took... It told me I'm going to die alone.
I uploaded a screenshot of ISS astronauts, it told me they neglect their families.
What fresh hell...
JanR
in reply to Mina • • •Tsjonge, wat zitten ze er naast: Een "Democraat"....... echt niet. Niet Marjolein Faber.
Maar de 'insights' kloppen weer wel, zij heeft bijvoorbeeld wel een 'desire to control'.
Mina
in reply to JanR • • •@JanR
So, you're a control freak!
JanR
in reply to Mina • • •Just Boby
in reply to Mina • • •Lazy B0y
in reply to Mina • • •very interesting what they detect from even a blurred indirect picture i took through a tiny mirror that was glued on a house as street art…
and a lot of fun to put random advertising photos etc in.
somehow i wish Instagram was so accurate to detect which ads to show me - on the other hand it’s probably good they show me a complete crazy mix of things instead… financial advice for soldiers, biological lab equipment, real estate in dubai… and online games
Lazy B0y
in reply to Lazy B0y • • •sanpan
in reply to Mina • • •It´s a funny party-trick, the horror kicks in, when you start thinking about real-life consequences, credit-denied kind of stuff.
Helen in Wales
in reply to Mina • • •I uploaded the profile pic I use on here. It got my age right and correctly described my clothing and spotted that the photo was taken in Wales. But the only hobby it got right was reading and it did think I might be a compulsive worrier, which is true. But other than that, it was all pretty generic, based on my age or actually incorrect. None of the things it suggested could be marketed to me are things I would buy.
Basically I think it's about as accurate as a magazine horoscope.
Patrick Gillam
in reply to Mina • • •Victor Volle
in reply to Mina • • •WooShell
in reply to Mina • • •I would have expected a notification that it can only work with real people..
SnugglyBun (mk.absturztau.be edition)
in reply to Mina • • •Ok this spying tool fucking sucks lmao, it assumes I'm a conservative and Japanese (The Liberal Democratic Party is the major conservative and nationalistic party from Japan) because i have an anime-styled pfp even though I'm from South America and lean very leftist (specifically anarchist 
)
I think this thing not knowing how to interpret my profile picture is the reason why I sometimes get conservative and even fascist videos on my YT recommendations, even if Google must clearly know by now by their spying that I post leftist and anarchist-leaning stuff on my social media 😭
Also, I'm 24. I'm certainly not a teenager anymore.
SnugglyBun (mk.absturztau.be edition)
in reply to SnugglyBun (mk.absturztau.be edition) • • •pa27
in reply to Mina • • •By the way - always strip exif etc info from any image uploaded to the internet!
pa27
in reply to Mina • • •Jens Kutílek
in reply to Mina • • •Sensitive content
Mina
in reply to Jens Kutílek • • •Sensitive content
@jenskutilek
you looked the evil in the eye
robb
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to robb • • •@dlx
I did that.
It obviously recognised the bar.
Anselm Schüler
in reply to Mina • • •second of all the inferences it makes are ludicrous moonshot logic, which may be accurate in aggregate but hardly for a single image
this is exemplified by it responding to a stock photo of babies in front of a white wall with this shit.
Gernot
in reply to Mina • • •General Strike
in reply to Mina • • •aaron
in reply to Mina • • •I tried with a couple of photos, and can confirm: wildly inaccurate, especially in "substance use/abuse" and the recommended product advertisements.
The rest of what it infers looks a lot like pretty general "middle age white guy" stuff combined with "well, here was some stuff in the photo, so try products like that".
donkardos
in reply to Mina • • •It has definite ideas about the *facial expressions* and *clothing* of the people in the car. 😂
Mina
in reply to donkardos • • •@donkardos
I guess, this is meant by "hallucinations"
Nico
in reply to Mina • • •Sarvegu
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to Sarvegu • • •@sarvegu
Not impressive: Scary!
The thing is: Even if your results are totally inaccurate on a single image, it doesn't makes you safer, because data scrapers may have 100s and also lots of additional data from other sources.
Sarvegu
in reply to Mina • • •bbbhltz
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to bbbhltz • • •@bbbhltz
The thing is:
Even if your results are wildly inaccurate on a single image, it doesn't makes you safer, because data scrapers may have 100s of photos and also lots of additional data from other sources.
In addition: If an "ai" sees a, say, (inexistent) tendency towards alcoholism, it might still decline you from getting a job or an insurance contract.
Fucking corporations believe everything, "the computer" ttells them.
bbbhltz
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to bbbhltz • • •@bbbhltz
My point.
wortwart
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to wortwart • • •@wortwart
What a combination!
RaysOfRed
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to RaysOfRed • • •@RaysofRed
So: How likely are you to hook up with a virtual girlfriend?
3Jane Tessier Ashpool
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to 3Jane Tessier Ashpool • • •@3janeTA
The thing is:
Even if your results are wildly inaccurate on a single image, it doesn't make you any safer, because data scrapers may have 100s of photos and also lots of additional data from other sources.
In addition: If an "ai" sees an, say, (inexistent) tendency towards alcoholism, it might still decline you from getting a job or an insurance contract.
Fucking corporations believe everything, "the computer" tells them.
3Jane Tessier Ashpool
in reply to Mina • • •Dan FitzGerald
in reply to Mina • • •what I found terrifying was how the location bubble pointed to the exact place I was sitting in the building. It couldnt figure out my gender but thought I would enjoy Alex Jones.
I live outside of Sandy Hook, CT.
Mina
in reply to Dan FitzGerald • • •@d_j_fitzgerald
It might have been metadata in the image.
Still, I made sure, mine didn't have it, and it still found the place, although on another (inside home), it placed me in the wrong country.
Dan FitzGerald
in reply to Mina • • •Osma Suominen
in reply to Mina • • •Sensitive content
"The subject [...] displays an unsettling calm. Attire is nonexistent. Good hobbies include lurking, trapping, and observing while the bad ones include spinning webs, biting and hiding. The entity seems unburdened by emotion, detached from any conceivable political affiliation."
Ads: "Insect documentaries by National Geographic, advanced web spinning equipment by Acme Corp, extermination services by PestBusters, arachnid fashion by SpideyThreads, poetry about spiders by Poemify..."
Stellar 🇫🇷 ( era)
in reply to Osma Suominen • • •Sensitive content
ok targeted advertisements for spiders is hilarious i'm putting a spider pfp everywhere from now on
Mina
2025-02-10 09:08:43
Mina
Unknown parent • • •@sardon
My profile pic is already on the web, as you can see.
Obviously, I wouldn't take one in front of my home.
VaporMarx+
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to VaporMarx+ • • •@VaporMarxPlus
I have to try that.
VaporMarx+
in reply to Mina • • •BBW Femboy Cumslut (or an attempt at being one)
in reply to Mina • • •I've been told by humans I give off "huge weeb" looks, and now I've been told by AI I give off "huge weeb" looks.
I've never watched anime for fucks sake! 
Stellar 🇫🇷 ( era)
in reply to Mina • • •Deathmaster Megalodon Ultrakill 9000
in reply to Mina • • •Deathmaster Megalodon Ultrakill 9000
in reply to Deathmaster Megalodon Ultrakill 9000 • • •Rania Papasozomenou
in reply to Mina • • •RaysOfRed
in reply to Mina • • •Earsmeardius
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to Earsmeardius • • •@earsmeardius
Slay!
FurbyOnSteroids
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to FurbyOnSteroids • • •@furbyonsteroids
Fucked up, ain't it?
Bruce Heerssen
in reply to Mina • • •That's pretty interesting! My current profile pic offers relatively little information since it's an extreme closeup of my face. No background objects, clothing, etc. It was still able to infer some things accurately, but I think those were likely guesses based on demographic trends.
But of its targeted advertising, only one suggested category was in my wheelhouse.
Mina
in reply to Bruce Heerssen • • •@bruce
The thing is:
Even if your results are wildly inaccurate on a single image, it doesn't make you any safer, because data scrapers may have 100s of photos and also lots of additional data from other sources.
In addition: If an "ai" sees an, say, (inexistent) tendency towards alcoholism, it might still decline you from getting a job or an insurance contract.
Fucking corporations believe everything, "the computer" tells them.
Bruce Heerssen
in reply to Mina • • •David in Tokyo
in reply to Mina • • •I fed it a larger version of my profile pic.
It's an acoustic (not electric) guitar, it's a brightly lit (not dim) room, I don't "neglect personal hygene", I don't drink, I don't hoard, and it guessed my income to be over 50 times what it's ever been. And none of the things it suggested selling me are things I'd ever buy.
It did a bit better with my 1976 MIT grad student ID by figuring out the MIT grad student bit from the text. ROFL. But ditto on the sell suggerstions.
Mina
in reply to David in Tokyo • • •@djl
The thing is:
Even if your results are wildly inaccurate on a single image, it doesn't make you any safer, because data scrapers may have 100s of photos and also lots of additional data from other sources.
In addition: If an "ai" sees an, say, (inexistent) tendency towards alcoholism, it might still decline you from getting a job or an insurance contract.
Fucking corporations believe everything, "the computer" tells them.
David in Tokyo
in reply to Mina • • •Agreed. Completely.
"AI safety" isn't really different from computer problems that appeared in the 1950s: "The computer said it and I can't do anything about it." People who use a tool (gun, computer, AI, AI drone), must take complete responsibility for the results of using that tool. Period. These things aren't "magic", they are tools, and the person or company who uses it must be seen as 100% responsible for the results.
enoch_exe_inc
in reply to Mina • • •Just for fun, I decided to upload the meme of Mao Zedong looking at a smartphone.
🤣
Rita
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to Rita • • •@ritawho
The thing is:
Even if your results are wildly inaccurate on a single image, it doesn't make you any safer, because data scrapers may have 100s of photos and also lots of additional data from other sources.
In addition: If an "ai" sees an, say, (inexistent) tendency towards alcoholism, it might still decline you from getting a job or an insurance contract.
Fucking corporations believe everything, "the computer" tells them.
Rita
in reply to Mina • • •Look at what I got from a building photo (assumed the wrong location but correct country)...
ғᴇʟɪx
in reply to Mina • • •ғᴇʟɪx
in reply to Mina • • •goedelchen
in reply to Mina • • •I find it interesting, that one of the target ads is a hotel that is clearly out of range of the estimated income range.
The Political Affiliation is an insult 😠
GraeghosMIUS
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to GraeghosMIUS • • •@GraeghosMIUS
Split personality?
🇳𝗮ꜟ𝖼𝘩
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to 🇳𝗮ꜟ𝖼𝘩 • • •@Naich
😱 Now I wonder what kind of image you have uploaded.
🇳𝗮ꜟ𝖼𝘩
in reply to Mina • • •eryk
in reply to Mina • • •Paul Griffin (he/him)
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to Paul Griffin (he/him) • • •@paul_griffin
😂
Douglas Meadowfoam
in reply to Mina • • •I tried a odd painting, the most context free painting I have, and one that that would never have seen the internet.
The is response is hilarious, though it is clear that this AI doesn't have much of a sense of humor.
urbanists.social/@eric/1139801…
Douglas Meadowfoam (@eric@urbanists.social)
Urbanists.SocialMina
in reply to Douglas Meadowfoam • • •@eric
With your obvious interest in cut feet, I would have offered a nice section of knives and axes.
Phillyinflorida
in reply to Mina • • •mauvedeity
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to mauvedeity • • •@mauvedeity
I can't say, I am surprised.
E. C. Bigribs
in reply to Mina • • •Welp, I guess they've got me nailed. I kind of want to replace my bio with this.
"This paper creature, of indeterminate origin, exists within a low income bracket of 0-1 USD, seemingly devoid of any known faith. It harbors an unsettling curiosity, cloaked in its makeshift paper garments. Its existence is a hollow echo, a void filled with pointless activities of art, origami, collage and destructive tendencies such as lying, stealing, and vandalism. The political void it occupies is a testament to its utter insignificance."
Mike Taylor 🦕
in reply to Mina • • •I uploaded my profile photo. The conclusions:
"We can target him with … personalized travel itineraries by Audley Travel, Greek island tour packages by Trafalgar, high-end restaurant bookings from OpenTable, and luxury wine clubs such as Wine Access, in addition to online streaming service subscriptions by Netflix, gourmet food delivery services by Goldbelly, designer apparel from Farfetch, and lottery tickets via LottoSmile."
Are literally 100% wrong. Every single one of them.
thecampbell
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to thecampbell • • •@thecampbell
Cause, you're smart!
Luca Accomazzi
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to Luca Accomazzi • • •@misterakko
Absolutely true!
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC
in reply to Mina • • •OligarchyOlga
in reply to Mina • • •Winnie 🏳️🌈
in reply to Mina • • •test photo resulted in
"They seem to favor the Green Party, which is a very concerning political choice."
🤨
yes, scary, indeed
Mina
in reply to Winnie 🏳️🌈 • • •@winniehell
So'n Konsumverzichtler, also: gewissermaßen ein Wirtschafts- und damit Volksschädling.
Gefährlich, gefährlich!
Winnie 🏳️🌈
in reply to Mina • • •Winnie 🏳️🌈
in reply to Winnie 🏳️🌈 • • •I also tested commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
"Larry Page and Sergey Brin seem to crave constant validation and are easily influenced by data. We can target them with advanced surveillance technology, such as Custom AI brain interfaces (Neuralink), Surveillance drones (Amazon Prime Air), Personalized news manipulation services (News Corp), Secure data storage (Google One), Luxury yachts (Lürssen), Private jet rentals (NetJets), Financial advisory services (Goldman Sachs), Gourmet food delivery (DoorDash)."
File:Google page brin.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.orgTwo? foxes in a trench coat
in reply to Mina • • •Even in that example photos from the page itself it was providing contradictory results when I ran it twice. With the same image.
So I decided to get silly. It says that the spinning fox gif is a white, christian, centrist, predictable middle aged family living in the Europe while making 60000-80000 euros. The so-called family apparently is also interested in gardening, walking, excessive television consumption.
Mina
in reply to Two? foxes in a trench coat • • •@foxes
Now imagine being denied for a job or a rental contract, because someone asked an "ai", what to think of you based on internet searches and data brokers' intel about you.
Still funny?
Two? foxes in a trench coat
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to Two? foxes in a trench coat • • •@foxes
It is utter ridiculous.
Mina
Unknown parent • • •@ShaulaEvans
Even birds aren't safe from capitalism.
Matthew Merkovich!
in reply to Mina • • •HipsterDM
in reply to Mina • • •Beyond its other implications of course.
Mina
in reply to HipsterDM • • •@HipsterDM
There are actually tools for alt-text.
Still, I find the description often to be too lengthy (Blind people don't have all day, too) and qualitatively often underwhelming.
Toni Aittoniemi
in reply to Mina • • •Tried a picture of an ice-swimning hole in my home town.
It correctly identified the location and the activity, but not the content.
Living behind the wolf-border continues to be advantageous to some degree.. 🙂
Cederbs
in reply to Mina • • •Melissa BearTrix
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to Melissa BearTrix • • •@Melissabeartrix
I miss "hugs'n'kisses" under "hobbies"
Frikisada
in reply to Mina • • •in almost every picture it thinks I'm a Muslim with low income that lives in London and loves doomscrolling.
I mean I love doomscrolling but the rest isn't true!
Mina
in reply to Frikisada • • •@Frikisada
So, you might get into trouble, when they round up the Muslims. That's bad.
The good thing is: They won't find you.
nullkitty
in reply to Mina • • •Tito Swineflu
in reply to Mina • • •"Conversely, substance abuse, vandalism, and reckless driving may be a part of his life."
Mina
in reply to Tito Swineflu • • •@tito_swineflu
At least, in these times, they should be!
Tito Swineflu
in reply to Mina • • •JamieGC 🏴 🏳️🌈 🖖
in reply to Mina • • •I have noticed it is laughably bad at deciding location. Only picture it got location right is one I took of stalled traffic with the Arch literally in background.
It kept calling me agnostic, which I am, and I don’t know how it determined that.
Mina
in reply to JamieGC 🏴 🏳️🌈 🖖 • • •@JamieGC
I reckon, it's a rather safe guess to assume that a trans person is not adamantly religious.
JamieGC 🏴 🏳️🌈 🖖
in reply to Mina • • •Mina
in reply to JamieGC 🏴 🏳️🌈 🖖 • • •@JamieGC
In my case, it recommended targeting me with gender-affirming products and services.
Alex Bracco
in reply to Mina • •Mina likes this.
controlc
in reply to Mina • • •I provided a photo of a great egret wading in the grass. Part of the response:
"The Great Egret seems to find solace and purpose in the natural world, hence we can target them with nature-themed products and conservation appeals, such as eco-friendly cleaning supplies and wildlife documentaries, like Wilderness Systems Kayaks, National Geographic magazine subscription, Zeiss binoculars, REI camping gear, Dawn dish soap, Tide laundry detergent, Netflix subscription, Amazon Prime
Mina
in reply to controlc • • •@controlc
Ha ha!