Rollercoaster headline

Feels like this title could benefit from clarification that 'Massive Attack' refers to the band and not the concept of a large scale attack; perhaps "Band 'Massive Attack' Turns Concert into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment"

Neat and all, but I'd be even happier if they flirted with the experiment of actually touring a new album, rather than serving as trip-hop's answer to Roger Waters, touring forever on the same 12 songs.

A few sentences in, I was thinking that the article felt AI-generated, so I scrolled to the bottom of the page. There's no author listed, but there is this disclaimer:

"AI assists in refining our editorial process, ensuring that every article is engaging, clear and succinct."

One thing I hope we'll see in the future on these types of articles is the ability to view the original prompt. If your goal is to be succinct, you can't get much more succinct than that.

Just wait until Coldplay gets ahold of this tech.

> The band deployed live facial recognition technology that captured and analyzed attendees during their recent performance.

I think more drama has been created around this than is necessary. Based on the video, the real-time projected visitor's faces were not analyzed. They were simply shown with a random description flag attached, such as "energetic," "compassionate," "inspiring," "fitness influencer," or "cloud watcher." It seems to be an artistic provocation showing what a real people analysis could look like.

Not having a clear consent statement or saying what they are doing with the data seems the correct artistic choice.

Now that’s what I call art.

It’s hard to explain the concept of surveillance and its effects to laypeople. And the corporations absolutely know that.

From the video this appears to be face detection, with some cute strings attached at random to the detected faces.

I don't see evidence of facial recognition.

They have long been sounding the alarm to society through their art. As a longtime fan, I’m glad to see them being recognized in this way once again.

The YouTube video is a year old, and says the labels are fake.

Have they done this again with an updated system?

Has it ever been confirmed if Robert Del Naja is Bansky?

Well that was timely. I just requested a refund for my new Zenni eyeglasses because the IR blocking was also blocking my iPhone's faceID.

Maybe I should keep them.

This lends even more weight to the theory that Massive Attack’s singer is, in fact, Banksy.

I tried to create an art piece sorta like this once. Video cameras in two separate places in the world, hooked up to a monitor. Made to look like a mirror, only you realize you're looking into a completely different place. So if you and someone else walk up to it, it's like you in another dimension. I was told I couldn't bring it to a regional burning man event because "it violates consent" (because they didn't consent to being filmed). Despite their being no storage or recording whatsoever and it only being a live feed to another identical event. The organizers just couldn't come to grips with the discomfort they felt that there are cameras capturing your image. We definitely need more of these projects so people don't keep their heads in the sand.

Are the faces even of audience members? Seems...gimmicky. The faces don't seem to react at all, and all are making almost AI movements. Many look artificial.

And it isn't identifying the people or anything. It's putting some meaningless adjective like "Resourceful" below them.

Have seen this headline a few times and thought it was actual novel, but instead it's just a surveillance gimmick. Put a bunch of generative AI face loops with bounding boxes and adjectives.