we live in interesting times. I want out.

31 Comments

  1. Argo_York

    I don’t know, man. Even though it’s 2022 most surveillance footage I’ve seen you can’t even tell people have hands most of the time. Not to mention AI as of now, though that may end soon, can’t do motion and one of the most useful aspects of surveillance footage is that it tracks a person’s movements (as in victim goes in one direction, suspect is seen following after them).

  2. DaveinOakland

    That uhh…

    …that looks like …

    Nevermind, does it vibrate? Asking for AI related reasons.

  3. hells_cowbells

    If you wear this, Inigo Montoya will track you down and kill you in revenge for his father’s death.

  4. cyg_cube

    an AI can distinguish AI generated footage

  5. YamStallion

    Personally I’m thinking of getting a hoodie with a distorted Getty images logo on it

  6. JohnGenericDoe

    AI will learn to do hands (and teeth, please, for the love of Gibson!) very soon, I would guess

  7. SolarFreakingPunk

    Nah, man. What’s really happening is that an artist made a silly finger ring and some futurist amateur tech blogger took the picture and wrote up the silliest AI-related justification, passing it as insight into the future for internet points.

  8. This is a fucking joke, dude. God, this sub sucks.

  9. There is a lot conjecture in this post. Can’t even get criminals to wear a mask when committing obvious crimes. You really think they are going to source an extra, rubber finger for the tiny possibility of camera footage when they can’t even hide their face/posture/gait? Most criminals do not think 10 minutes ahead and I seriously doubt it’s camera footage that is putting them away.

  10. BastardCrows

    The police will just lie to get what they want. Never stopped them before no one’s stopping them now.

  11. BlackForestMountain

    Lol we fooling artificial intelligence with a fake finger. There are AIs producing fake videos there’s AIs detecting fake videos

  12. franklowjaeger

    Sweet. Lemme just upload this to my 3d printer along with these *clacks away on the keyboard* ghost guns and a marvel mask aaaaaand PRINT.

    Good to go!

  13. mastah-yoda

    But look at this text: ” Criminals will start wearing… ”

    Like, there’s a general criminal convention where self-identified criminals gather, and greet each other with “Hello fellow criminal”, and they sat around one day and decided that they’re going to wear an extra finger prop so criminal-catching cameras can’t be relied on when filming those criminals with criminal intents.

    “Haha” – laughed the criminals, “now we can do more criminal crime and cameral that film us criminals doing crimes probably can’t be trusted.”

  14. Brandonmxb

    Don’t worry, the suicide booths from Futurama will be coming soon lol

  15. StriveForMediocrity

    As far as I can tell, this site is the only mention of this (good luck searching for “finger ring” and not getting “ring finger” in the results!). It looks like a one-off specific to that person. Interesting to think about, but probably not something anyone is doing, or will do. It’s more likely they’ll cover their face or destroy the camera. Any photo evidence would likely be too far away, too low res for this to be a possibility. Or simply in a video, as someone else mentioned.

    https://nadjabuttendorf.com/fingerring/

  16. Philinhere

    But, in classic Monkey Paw dystopia, criminals make AI generated images admissible in court under reasonable doubt by often wearing extra prosthetic fingers!

  17. theLouieX

    Why would one use their hand to mess with security cameras? Cameras have face recognition techniques, so altering face, like wearing a third eye or second nose may get them where they want .. this is more a sex toy that was mislabeled imo

  18. NeuralFlow

    Those can’t be my finger prints your honor. That person has SIX fingers! And I’m just a talking chicken from Kentucky.

  19. doublepulse

    Why not just glue a rubber cock to your forehead on the way to commit whatever crime. “YOUR HONOR THIS CANNOT BE MY CLIENT, MY CLIENT DOES NOT IN FACT HAVE A TEN INCH LONG THREE INCH GIRTH PENIS ON HIS FACE.”

  20. Buipeterafte

    You’re probably underestimating how long the “AI can’t draw hands” problem will endure.

  21. zehamberglar

    For sure not true. You can easily establish a chain of evidence to prove the source of the footage.

  22. TheTarquin

    We have a saying in the hacking world: POC || GTFO

    “Proof of concept, or get the fuck out”

    I will believe that this works the first time it’s actually done.

  23. YeltsinYerMouth

    I’ve seen this picture way before the hyperphalangical AI art became a thing

  24. Where does this leave the triads? They cut a finger off as a sign of loyalty, strap on a fake finger to hit the uncanny valley, they’re just back to the normal number of fingers.

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