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AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The headline is clearly false, you can't tell political affiliation just by looking at a persons face.
Maybe in USA you have a slightly better chance than random, because age and gender alone will give a statistical difference. But the claim of the headline remains false.

The claim of the headline is reiterated in the article:

A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology can accurately assess a person’s political orientation by simply looking at that person’s blank, expressionless face.

Further down:

So, according to this theory, if you have a tiny face, you’re probably a progressive. Or, by contrast, if you have a big fat face, there’s a good chance you might be a Trump voter.

This simply can't be true, if it was the attempt at a Phrenology/Craniology science would have detected it 200 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

100% a response to the headline, which clearly must be false

It is, my bad - I thought that was obvious. The headline and the article conclusion contradict the study itself, it's just clickbait.

But the study is not invalid because of it.