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FaceApp apparently now has race filters. I never got the humor in these.
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Trump's is really something else
Black Trump is killing me!!
No app is a match against that face.
They have been removed.
Lmao at the blonde tip highlight on Indian Trump.Trump's is really something else
Neapolitan Trump
DirgeExtinction
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"What does this app think I'd look like if I wasn't [black, Latino, Asian, White, etc]?"
Snarky(HEART)
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Now this is just gross
CrimsonSquall
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How the fuck is this racist, honest question
rackham
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It's not. People are diluting the word "racist" and it in no way applies to this.
CrimsonSquall
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Yea come on, no way people are legit mad at this.
I mean ofc some people are because they are the type to outrage over everything but come on!
No fun allowed always bc of this bullshit
where did you find this picture of narendra modi
I don't get it either. If anything, it's a good thing that blurs the line between race. It's a real shame they took it down so fast. At least wait to see if there are any well reasoned arguments before you do that.
You're not allowed to look like me, you don't deserve it, your dna is your skin colour passport and this app is illegally immigrating you into my skin country.
Peotical Injection
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As a Latino, it was interesting to see how I looked like as a white, black, Indian, and Asian. The black filter was super interesting, since my great grandmother was black. Tried to show my wife the filters, but they are gone.
rackham
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Yes.You're shitty for jumping on a bandwagon and condemning something without understanding why
Snarky(HEART)
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Look guys just because I can't explain to you why it's racist doesn't mean it's not racist it just is and I know it is OK?!
Lol
Jzero
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Stfu. I'm afro-mexican and would have loved to see how I would look with dark skin like half of my family.
I think it's a web app. I downloaded an older APK and it didn't have the features either.
Snarky(HEART)
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I mean, I do understand why it's shitty, it's basically racial stereotyping in it's purest form.
Snarky(HEART)
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How about it's a reminder that we as a group aren't fighting real racism hard enough that stuff like this becomes a fire starter
This is insane. I legit don't know which one is the real you. I can see why this app got pulled. Seems like a easy way to fake an identity online. Pedo's and molesters would have a field day with this.
rackham
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Well the answer is definitely not about racism. To say it is is not only uneducated, but it's harmful to the actual definition of the word.
Hell, the answer is that the app is fine but people like to have this faux outrage and it's disingenuous
OH it's stereotyping now. Pray tell how it's stereotyping.
Should we call it discriminatory too?
How about prejudiced??
If we start using words without knowing the proper meanings it makes you (and everyone else) look like fools.
AT THE MOST you can say that this is disrespectful but come the fuck on.
What gets me is some people in this thread thinking this filter accurately portrayed what they would have look like if they were mixed just a tad differently. That is racism based on ignorance, because you think one race/ethnicity boils down to these specific features their algorithm provides. Look, you wouldn't have magically grown that mustache.
...it's a neural network. It's taking a shitload of real photos to generate a result. It's not as if they are just slapping a bunch of random features on the photo to make it look like a race. Look at black Lightening for example. No stereotypical features whatsoever and it looks believable. It depends on the input picture.
I really hope they bring this back up because it looks fun as hell. I want to plaster other race versions of people like Steve Bannon everywhere to piss them off.
Snarky(HEART)
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I wonder if people would still be this okay with it if it didn't work so well
I think that's why this is interesting. This is an AI trying to discern the difference between races. In reality, these differences are the only actual differences between races. It's kind of an amazing demonstration when you think about it.
White Kim just ended me. Lmao
Yeah, exactly. The minute nature of the different filters shows just how alike we all actually are in the end, at least physically. Really helps describe that racism really does boil down to prejudice based on the color of one's skin.
I can get folks being annoyed by certain features being common (like some filters giving people mustaches or the wide noses of the "African" filter), but that's an easily solved problem, and one that is simply a consequence of the data fed into the neural network, not a product of any sort of malice on their part.
Obviously not. The fact that it works so well is a huge part of what makes it so fascinating.
If it worked poorly it'd just be another in a long line of poorly-executed image filters.
rackham
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And your post isn't ignorant? People don't look the same. People in the same race don't always have similar features.
Again, stop using the word racism. Look the word up and then come back and talk about ignorance.
Thats amazing
Are you a man on a mission? I say exactly what you say in the bolded. And what's racist isn't the filter, but some posters thinking their outer appearance if their mom or dad were of that specific race instead would be accurately portrayed by this filter. Which it isn't.
Obliterator
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Its pretty impressive how real some of these look honestly.
Black lighting would be the best looking Final Fantasy Character ever. I would change the hair colour though.I wanna see what the limits of this tech are.
rackham
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Yes I am on a mission. I get offended when people incorrectly use the word racist.
It bothers me and it should bother everyone in this thread. It's because of people constantly misusing the word that the ignorance continues.
White Kim looks like he'd be a guest character on The Office.