{"id":807,"date":"2023-06-04T14:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T13:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualperson.org\/deja-vu\/?p=807"},"modified":"2023-07-14T20:04:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T19:04:39","slug":"deep-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualperson.org\/deja-vu\/deep-hysteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Hysteria"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEEP HYSTERIA<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 is a still image series that repurposes algorithmic bias in the service of unraveling a deep human bias.<\/p>\n

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The people in these artworks aren\u2019t real. They are \u201cAI\u201d-generated twins that vary in gender presentation, titled as another \u201cAI\u201d perceives their faces.<\/p>\n

The faces are generated using deep learning algorithms trained on still frames of thousands of YouTubers speaking to the camera. Generated individuals are then algorithmically regendered and the variations fed to\u00a0commercial deep learning based facial analysis algorithms<\/a>, which attempt to categorize the faces according to the emotion of the subject apparent in their facial expression. Despite the marketing of such tools, reading emotions solely by analyzing a person\u2019s face is a feat that\u00a0neither humans<\/a>\u00a0nor\u00a0\u201cAI\u2019s\u201d<\/a>\u00a0can reliably do. Further, these deep learning algorithms are themselves trained on data categorized by humans \u2014 so they reflect human biases.<\/p>\n

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For centuries, \u201chysteria\u201d was a medical and mental diagnosis<\/a>\u00a0that assumed females had an innate predisposition toward an anxious and nervous emotional state. Although the diagnosis has been retired, stereotypes of women as nervous, fearful, and uncertain continue to impact how women are perceived and treated. And while more women than men are diagnosed with anxiety, a\u00a0Google image search for \u201canxiety\u201d<\/a>\u00a0returns a far disproportionate number of images of women \u2014 who tend to be depicted in stereotypical \u201cfemale hysteria\u201d poses. The stereotype is further augmented by the cultural expectation of smiling as women\u2019s default facial expression. Consider the phenomena of\u00a0\u201cResting Bitch Face\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201ctelling women to smile.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0A neutral facial expression on a women is read as disgust, distress, or unhappiness: \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n

The artworks in Deep Hysteria redeploy the bias embedded in facial analysis algorithms in the service of probing this deeply entrenched social bias.<\/p>\n

Complete info on Deep Hysteria here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

A paper,\u00a0Deep Hysteria: What algorithmic bias tells us about our emotional perceptions of women<\/i>,\u00a0is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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DEEP HYSTERIA\u00a0 is a still image series that repurposes algorithmic bias in the service of unraveling a deep human bias. The people in these artworks aren\u2019t real. They are \u201cAI\u201d-generated twins that vary in gender presentation, titled as another \u201cAI\u201d perceives their faces. The faces are generated using deep learning algorithms trained on still frames […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualperson.org\/deja-vu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualperson.org\/deja-vu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualperson.org\/deja-vu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualperson.org\/deja-vu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualperson.org\/deja-vu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/virtualperson.org\/deja-vu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/virtualperson.org\/deja-vu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualperson.org\/deja-vu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualperson.org\/deja-vu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualperson.org\/deja-vu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}