Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t
I've seen a genius use of face analysis lately: nvidia new video codec for chat.<p><a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/ai-video-compression" rel="nofollow">https://developer.nvidia.com/ai-video-compression</a><p>Basically it creates an AI model of your face, send that to the other party, and then when you move, it only sends key face points. The other party uses the AI model to create a virtual hi-res picture of you, thispersondoesnotexist style, except it looks perfectly like you. Then it uses the face points to move it the way you move.<p>The result: it consumes almost no bandwidth and you get the experience of a hi-res video call.<p>Of course, then I realized the trap: it's a perfect honey pot to get everyone to scan their face.<p>This is, IMO, what's going to happen with the VR. Big companies like Facebook/Meta are going to use the online avatar as a motivator to let them scan everything that can identify you. It will make the virtual you so realistic! Scan your face, your cat, your whole flat!<p>People will jump on that, with no thinking about the consequences what so ever. After all, they are crazy about the way services like snapchat can change your face on a video.<p>It's already game over. Like with Ken of the North star, we don't know it, but we are already owned.