I was hoping to see some replies to this comment, lol. Sadly it just makes me think of companies like Cambridge Analytica and ultimately big tech in general, no doubt using software with similarities to this but not available to, or necessarily used for the personal benefit of, those whose minds are being mirrored.
Maybe a little SciFi sounding but I can imagine in the near future there becoming a market for obscuring a person's search and online social behaviour results. With the proper attention paid to timing and location, it would be a fairly simple matter to blur realities between who a person is and what a program has randomly searched for: e.g. provide your login details to a program that spends the next couple of years inserting random data on your behalf.
If I were them, i'd have it firetested by giving free public access via yandex.cloud or something. Thereby leveraging obsessive-compulsive nerdness for shiny new strange things.
Seems like it would be possible (perhaps even easy depending on how complex their algorithm is) to make an free or open source version of this a give it away. It's essentially a zero risk intervention so I imagine it would be possible to test it on oneself if one had these nightmares.
This really is an interesting piece of software, i can see something like this being used for targeted ads; for example, I see allot of car pictures in my area meaning an ad company could only display car related ads if the user was from my area.
This can also be used for stalking. Allot of people take pictures at home and you could be able to find their area by their username.
It is probably going to be used as an experiment internally, just how the rainbow profile pic filter was used to analyse behavioural patterns in their users
The software looks "for fidgeting, restlessness and other potentially suspicious body language".
Great, so sociopaths will go unchallenged because the computer deems them trustworthy, and socially-anxious people will endure YET MORE intrusive encounters during what should be a simple trip to the store.
"Can I help you? No, I won't go away, I don't understand this computer thing but it says I really need to stay near you while you're in the store."
Dunno really. A human would watch the ghosts behaviour and guess their likely future behaviours based on that. I'm not sure if the software gets that, as it were, or how you'd tweak it to do so.
Seriously my thought.. Pretty much every company does that. Not especially for detecting if its a Human or AI, but for understanding if the User has problems with the Usability of the Product..
Nah... surely there's no way that software could mess up... people have all kinds of strange ideas, like traffic cameras looking for people using phones, and tag a guy scratching his head.... this surely is impossible to happen in real life with modern software.
They could just randomly pick anything from the menu, and say it was because of the scan, and it would still have the same PR effect, wouldn't it? (since no one would suspect it of getting it perfectly right in the first place)
Taking your example of image analysis, companies in this space will build applications that - for instance - identify which images of the 10,000 on a bandit's computer are all the same kid. The software company would use sample images of clothed kids to demonstrate how it works, then only law enforcement would input confiscated CP images to do the analysis.
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