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Oh the audacity of inferring emotions from facial expressions.
You're angry.
Am I?
Maybe I'm just concentrating.
It's not uncommon for people to make scowling faces at me in the street, in an apparent attempt to let me know what I look like? [Cheers]
I guess it's a compliment...imitation is the highest form of flattery?
Even in Amsterdam, I've been stopped by a concerned Dutchman (yes, I was shocked as you are):
Ben je verdrietig?
Nee, ik ben gewoon aan het denken
I guess that's nicer that being told how you feel. (pet hate)
Hopefully we still have the chance to defend our faces before big tech's algorithms for detecting emotions are accepted as gospel.
Oh the struggles of the expressively challenged.