socialcooling

Free 100% client-side chatting and writing with AI. Even your documents are stored in your browser.

Which means you get 100% privacy: everything happens on your own device.

Some features: - Proofreading, rewriting, summarizing, translating documents - Chatting with AI characters, even using your voice - Generating images and music - Transcribing and summarizing meetings - Transcribing audio files - Creating subtitles for video files

The only limit is how powerful your own device is.

You can find the code on Github here: https://github.com/flatsiedatsie/papeg_ai

I've created an educational game in which you can try to fool a face recognition algorithm by making funny faces. It's 100% privacy friendly, running locally in your own browser.

Technically. But as a European I'd already be in a lot of trouble for breaking the law, since the website promises to not collect personal data.

What you can do is check the javascript code for any 'http'. So open https://www.hownormalami.eu/main.js and then do CTRL-F and type in 'http'. See if any of the things you find seem to call home. Also scan over the code visually to check for any obfuscated code patterns which could hide additional instances of data transmission. In this case you won't find any shenanigans.

In general I applaud your critical stance.

The main one is FaceApiJS.

One I trained myself (BMI), and the others I just scavenged from existing Github projects. So with most of these I don't know how they were trained, what photos they were fed, etc.

That's difficult to say. You could start with getting to to know an issue and specialising in it. Reading books from academic writers (not the stuff sold at airport bookstores). Read Slashdot. Once you've got a grasp, think about how you could translate what you learnt so that your mom would understand it. Think about what your mom likes: quizes, human-interest stories. Lighthearted stuff. Then create your own translation.

It's probably easiest to connect with a local group of people who care about these issues.

Ah, so that's it! Thanks!

That would be great actually. I've enabled debug mode. Add ?debug to the end of the url to get a peak under the engine. So:

https://www.hownormalami.eu/?debug

Actually, the checkbox does nothing. It's just for show :-)

Yes you are correct.

You may enjoy this blogpost I made that goes into how the BMI prediction algorithm was developed. It's the only one in the project that I trained myself.

https://www.sherpapieces.eu/overview/predicting-your-bmi-fro...

Like you said, muscles matter quite a bit. It's attractive to use photos af athletes to train the algorithm, because there are a lot of websites that show their photos along with their weight and height (which you need to calculate a BMI). But since muscles weigh so much more than fat, athletes have high BMI with slim bodies, which warps the algorithm.

I didn't use athletes for this reason (it's trained on a diet of 50% Chinese celebrities and 50% American arrest records). But I found projects that do use these photos.

Yikes. I'll look into it. I take it you tried the button in the top-left to switch?

Were you able to select the other camera if you reloaded the page?

Creator here. It sounds like the main face detection algorithm (faceApiJS) wasn't able to load somehow. Then it will just try to keep you entertained by spouting funny loading sentences.

Try refreshing the page, or using a different browser.

Creator here.

The project was created as part of my role as artist within the Sherpa consortium. It's a Horizon2020 research project whose goal is to figure out what Europeans believe are the biggest issues around AI that we'll experience in 2025. Most of the other partners are universities, and I'm the lucky one who gets to translate what we learn into art pieces.

Learn more about Sherpa here: https://www.project-sherpa.eu/

All the other works I've created / am creating for Sherpa can be found here: https://www.sherpapieces.eu/

Besides working as an artist I also work as a privacy designer, which means I specialise in creating things/products that protect privacy.

This website was a very cool challenge to build, a testament to the power of javascript.

That's very strange. It doesn't use cookies at all. I know because I built it :-)

oh, thanks for bringing that to my attention, I'll look into it.

I suspect someone has tried to manipulate their score. I found one database entry that had only an extreme beauty score. I've hardened the system against this now.

You're very welcome.

I found the issue, and it should hopefully be fixed. It happened if your IP address couldn't be used to predict your location.

Age and gender are derived using the FaceApiJS project. In my own experience it's doesn't vary as wildly if you're a white male. With other ethnicities the predictability levels can drop, especially if you're Asian.

Yikes. Thanks, I'll look into it. The terms and conditions have no influence on this, but it could that that one of the scores required to create the life expectancy prediction is missing (age, gender, bmi, country).

You're right! Thanks, I've fixed it!

Alright, in that case it's a real service ;-)

Indeed, it's not a real service. It just pretends to be. You can just use the tool for free.

Although as time passes, it seems maybe it should be real...

I'm the creator of the website. It has a simple PHP text file counter. That's all it has, and I'd argue it's enough. I want people to be able to visit this website without any fear of tracking and profiling.

It's a strange thing to say I won't know if my message is effective or not without tracking, since we're currently discussing it on Hackernews ;-D

This sounds fascinating, but I can't seem to find more information online. Do you perhaps have a link or some keywords I should add to the search query?

Actually I just meant to refer to Foucault's analysis of Bentham's panopticon prison concept.

Thank you for posting this, saves me the trouble :-)

I re-read Deleuze's three-page paper every year. It really describes things well.

Creator of socialcooling.com here. You may enjoy this other website I created:

https://www.cloakingcompany.com

It's a fictitious company that helps you do exactly this. And while it's fiction, the tool actually does work.

That's pretty asinine too. You're not allowed to advocate a different life than the one you're leading? It's like the people saying you can't promote a greener environment if you still own a car. It's just another way of shutting them up by creating ridiculous moral standards and acting like you've 'caught them' at an inconsistency. Life is full of inconsistencies.

It's also too simple to equate advocating wealth redistribution with needing to give away your money. Giving away your fortune is probably not the best angle for wealth redistribution. Certain rules of fairness for the wealth redistribution may be needed. For example, it may be useful to fight for rules that get all relatively rich people to join in (aka taxes), which will create a much more powerful push for equality.

Social Cooling is related to a number of concepts, including Foucault's panopticon. But Social Cooling is about much more than "individuals change their behavior when observed"(the Hawthorne effect). That's only the starting point. Social cooling aims to cover the large scale societal consequences of that effect, and makes a comparison to Global Warming to point to the scale of the problem as well as the possible path that leads us out of the problem.