How Normal Am I
hownormalami.eu
An interactive essay that uses your webcam and on-device ML to analyze your face — estimating your age, attractiveness, BMI, and emotional state to reveal how these algorithms work and what assumptions they encode.
How Normal Am I? is a Dutch web experience about face-detection algorithms. With your camera on, it estimates things like your age and mood, and asks you to react to a few prompts, showing how an "artificial intelligence" reads and judges a face.
According to the site, no personal data is collected, and it asks you to accept terms before the camera turns on. On iPhone and iPad it works only in Safari. The point is to make the limits and oddities of these algorithms obvious, so take the scores as a demonstration, not as facts about you.
Why it is useful
One of the most effective privacy and AI literacy tools available. By turning the algorithms on you, it makes viscerally clear how facial analysis works, what assumptions are baked into the models, and how uncomfortable it feels to be scored on dimensions you didn't consent to. The explanatory text is thoughtful and research-backed. More memorable than any written explainer about algorithmic bias.
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