Smile for the Camera: Why Your Emotions Aren’t Private Anymore

Think your poker face keeps your feelings to yourself? Not anymore. Emotion-recognition AI is quietly scanning smiles, frowns, and micro-expressions to score how you feel.

Amazon’s Rekognition once advertised emotion detection for employers and security. TikTok has patented emotion-tracking technology. Police trials in the UK and US experimented with 'suspicion scoring' based on facial micro-expressions.

VisibleToHumans incorporates optical illusion patterns designed to confuse machine vision, creating distortions that make emotional micro-readings less reliable. The goal isn’t invisibility, but to spark awareness that cameras see more than we realize.

Every glance at your outfit becomes part of the protest.