{"id":198754,"date":"2024-11-03T17:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T23:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/two-students-created-face-recognition-glasses-it-wasnt-hard"},"modified":"2024-11-03T17:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T23:22:24","slug":"two-students-created-face-recognition-glasses-it-wasnt-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/two-students-created-face-recognition-glasses-it-wasnt-hard","title":{"rendered":"Two Students Created Face Recognition Glasses. It Wasn\u2019t Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-students-created-face-recognition-glasses-it-wasnt-hard2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a recent Friday afternoon, Kashif Hoda was waiting for a train near Harvard Square when a young man asked him for directions.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A month later, he found out just how strange. He had been an unwitting guinea pig in an experiment meant to show just how easy it was to rig artificial intelligence tools to identify someone and retrieve the person\u2019s biographical information \u2014 potentially including a phone number and home address \u2014 without the person\u2019s realizing it.<\/p>\n<p>A friend texted Mr. Hoda, telling him that he was in a video that was going viral. Mr. Nguyen and a fellow Harvard student, Caine Ardayfio, had built glasses used for identifying strangers in real time, and had demonstrated them on two \u201creal people\u201d at the subway station, including Mr. Hoda, whose name was incorrectly transcribed in the video captions as \u201cVishit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent Friday afternoon, Kashif Hoda was waiting for a train near Harvard Square when a young man asked him for directions. A month later, he found out just how strange. He had been an unwitting guinea pig in an experiment meant to show just how easy it was to rig artificial intelligence tools [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}