arXiv:2410.12148cs.CYcs.AI2024-10被引 1

探讨人脸AI如何重塑数字身份,揭示后人脸时代的新身份表演方式。

Facing Identity: The Formation and Performance of Identity via Face-Based Artificial Intelligence Technologies

  • 从脸型符号学出发,分析人脸识别技术对种族、性别等身份维度的影响。
  • 提出'后人脸'技术新范式,用户通过虚拟形象实现非具身身份表演。
  • 建议以VTuber为对象开展访谈,探索人机交互中的身份越界实践。

在以面部为基础的人工智能技术日益普及的背景下,数字身份如何被建构与呈现?尽管文本互联网中的身份议题已有深入研究,但当前互联网已演变为以视觉为核心,尤其是以人脸为中心的多媒体形态。与此同时,大量学术研究聚焦于人脸识别技术(FRTs)带来的监控与控制问题,其逻辑延续了伪科学的相貌学(physiognomy)偏见。然而,关于此类技术如何影响身份的形成与展演,相关研究仍显不足。本文综述指出,这些技术与‘面部性’(faciality)相互作用,即面部所承载或象征的身份意义,涉及种族、性别、性取向等维度。面对图像生成与深度伪造等最新进展,本文主张我们正进入‘后人脸’(post-facial)技术时代——在既有的面容文化基础上,脱离真实面部,重构数字身份关系。结合数字身份游戏与跨性别者的历史实践,本文提出适配当前后人脸人工智能环境的分析框架,并建议通过访谈VTuber(使用动作捕捉虚拟形象进行直播的网络主播)获取质性洞察,以理解这种新型人机交互下的社会技术体验。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

How is identity constructed and performed in the digital via face-based artificial intelligence technologies? While questions of identity on the textual Internet have been thoroughly explored, the Internet has progressed to a multimedia form that not only centers the visual, but specifically the face. At the same time, a wealth of scholarship has and continues to center the topics of surveillance and control through facial recognition technologies (FRTs), which have extended the logics of the racist pseudoscience of physiognomy. Much less work has been devoted to understanding how such face-based artificial intelligence technologies have influenced the formation and performance of identity. This literature review considers how such technologies interact with faciality, which entails the construction of what a face may represent or signify, along axes of identity such as race, gender, and sexuality. In grappling with recent advances in AI such as image generation and deepfakes, I propose that we are now in an era of "post-facial" technologies that build off our existing culture of facility while eschewing the analog face, complicating our relationship with identity vis-a-vis the face. Drawing from previous frameworks of identity play in the digital, as well as trans practices that have historically played with or transgressed the boundaries of identity classification, we can develop concepts adequate for analyzing digital faciality and identity given the current landscape of post-facial artificial intelligence technologies that allow users to interface with the digital in an entirely novel manner. To ground this framework of transgression, I conclude by proposing an interview study with VTubers -- online streamers who perform using motion-captured avatars instead of their real-life faces -- to gain qualitative insight on how these sociotechnical experiences.

身份建构人脸技术VTuber后人脸

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