Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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In the fall of 2021, after a remote year, I was teaching in person wearing a mask close to 100% of the time. A few weeks into one intro course, where the students didn’t already know me, I lowered my mask for a moment and there were audible gasps from the class. They’d never seen the lower half of my face!

“What did you •think• was going to be down there?!” I quipped. (Maybe they were picturing tentacles, like an Ood?)

But the gasp was genuine: after hours of looking at my masked face, they still had no idea what my •unmasked• face looks like.

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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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There are several photographs circulating online right now purporting to show the full, unmasked face of Renee Good’s killer. These photos are, as far as I’m aware, all AI-generated.

Please do not share these photos.

Remember that, as with all gen AI, it is answering the question “What would be statistically plausible here?” It’s not showing you the •killer’s• face. It’s showing you •a• face that fits with the what we know of the killer’s face.

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