“Facial recognition techniques give computers their own flavor of pareidolia. In addition to responding to actual human faces, facial recognition systems, just like the human vision system, sometimes produce false positives, latching onto some set of features in the image as matching their model of a face. Rather than the millions of years of evolution that shapes human vision, their pareidolia is based on the details of their algorithms and the vicissitudes of the training data they’ve been exposed to. Their pareidolia is different from ours. Different things trigger it.”
Machine Pareidolia: Hello Little Fella Meets FaceTracker | Ideas For Dozens
