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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

      The authors claim the system works about half the time even when people wear glasses. And this is just the beginning; first paper.

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

      And this is maybe the third or fourth most worrying ML paper I've seen recently re: AI and emergent authoritarianism. Historical crossroads.

      6 replies 177 retweets 482 likes
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

      Yes, we can & should nitpick this and all papers but the trend is clear. Ever-increasing new capability that will serve authoritarians well.

      4 replies 86 retweets 334 likes
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

      And here's the thing. These new capabilities are not like old capabilities. 1984 and old novels and metaphors are misleading us.

      4 replies 71 retweets 265 likes
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Josh Cowls

      Yes! You can be identified from your walk. Whatever else one may think of anonymity as a tactic—this is the reality.https://twitter.com/joshcowls/status/904685805381320704 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Josh Cowls @JoshCowls
      Combine this with gait analysis, and protesters will be unavoidably identifiable within a decade or so https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/904683388354867201 …
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted

      Crucial discussion if we are to preserve the better parts of liberal democracy and—per chance—even move forward. https://twitter.com/azeem/status/904687187266084864 …

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

      There are things to be said about academics doing this research, but the center of gravity here is outside academia—may be even outside US.

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

      Historically, nation-states have LONG figured out how to turn anonymity against protesters—informants, misinformation etc. Clear record but+

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

      ..the problem is different even if one understands how & why anonymity in protests almost always backfires and easily manipulated by states+

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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

      With ML, we have classifiers/categorizers *in the hands of power* that work well enough to suss out what you did NOT disclose. Big big deal.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

      And ML is the worst combo: High enough validity to be hard to resist use; high false & positive negatives *and* hard to tell which is which.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

          I should go back to food tweets before I start babbling about Leni Riefenstahl? 😱 If you are in AI/tech, you have to pick a historical side.

          7 replies 41 retweets 230 likes
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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

          Let me say: too many worry about what AI—as if some independent entity—will do to us. Too few people worry what *power* will do *with* AI.

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

          That's why so many articles about chess and AI etc. Intellectual/political lack of imagination partly due to the narrow slice of writers.

          3 replies 39 retweets 218 likes
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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

          And that is why we must broaden the thinkers & political people in this space. I love my geek tribe and my academic tribe—but so so limited.

          3 replies 51 retweets 246 likes
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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

          Intellectually, we need more historians & humanists who ALSO get the tech; politically, we need people who grok what state-power means.

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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jack Clark

          A few additions. Paper below. Paper isn't that great. Not the point--it's the direction that's worrying.https://twitter.com/jackclarkSF/status/904706379897741313 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Jack Clark @jackclarkSF
          Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @zeynep
          Yup, Arxiv, link in here https://jack-clark.net/2017/09/04/import-ai-issue-58-ai-makes-facial-identification-systems-see-through-masks-creating-yelp-foolin-fake-reviews-and-automated-creativity-with-pix2pix/ …
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        8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

          Also—AI threat isn't to protest since gov'ts know well anonymous protests very easy to to disrupt/subvert/misdirect. Threat is to *dissent*.

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        9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

          There is a reason many movements that face deep state violence go public and away from anonymity—anonymity plays to gov't strengths. BUT +

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        10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

          For a dissent *ecology* to exist, people need a basic right to privacy, dignity and autonomy. AI in the hands of power threatens all that.

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        11. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

          This is a minor paper; narrow, conditional results. But it's the direction & this will be done with nation-state data—not by grad students.

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        12. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          Back to this. Worry not about chess or conscious toasters. Threat is AI at the hands of power: gov'ts, corporations.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/904707522958852097 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          Let me say: too many worry about what AI—as if some independent entity—will do to us. Too few people worry what *power* will do *with* AI.
          Show this thread
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        13. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Gavin C

          No, your gait could identify you. A database of clothes purchases. Height. Retina. Not now, but all this is possiblehttps://twitter.com/CassidyGavin/status/904782974285209600 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Gavin C @CassidyGavin
          Replying to @zeynep
          Will be balanced by increase in computer camoflague clothing
          7 replies 24 retweets 149 likes
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        14. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Sep 2017

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          People who hope "OPSEC" will work for a growing movement=ppl who've never been in a growing movement facing a state. https://twitter.com/ncweaver/status/904784480224763904 …

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        15. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Sep 2017

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          Tech world should learn from nurses and librarians. They define *and* take their ethical responsibilities seriously. https://twitter.com/greene_dm/status/903592320544763904 …

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