DIGITAL PAREIDOLIA: A Personal Index Of Facebook’s Erroneous Portraits

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The artwork exhibits images of things that were recognized as faces by Facebook's facial recognition system. Out of 30,000 images 193 non-faces were recognized as faces. The artwork demonstrates a form of digital pareidolia as the software recognizes faces in clouds, stones and other things. Pareidolia is the psychological phenomenon of incorrect perception made by a human observer, like seeing faces in the clouds.

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