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Nintendo is selling facial recognition as a “chat feature” (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 month ago by rursta@retrolemmy.com to c/nintendo@lemmy.world
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Yes, it's not the first time. Yes, I am livid.

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[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

I mean I get your instinct be please stay accurate.

Facial recognition according to Wikipedia records photos or videos of someone's face, extracts landmarks and such, then does a bunch of pattern recognition and other identification methods like IR, to uniquely identify a face and save it as a permanent or time limited record.

Face tracking iirc ingests live video data and uses techniques more akin to modern AIs to estimate positions and angles of the face, then disregards them. It is not required to save photo or video, you can just catch running frames, do the tracking and then drop them.

You could say you need a camera and some frame of a face, but that's about where the similarities end. Maybe you could say that AIs and pattern matching is similar but ultimately modern AI techniques are a heck of a lot more complex. In fact, the mere difference between object detection / segmentation and upscaling is running on 2 different scientific fields.

Yes, both is risky but one's inherent purpose is the collecting of data, the other one is not. It's not the same.

Which is a shame, because it doesn't mean your concern is misplaced, it's just if you exaggerate you are fostering a more incoherent response.