At the user interface conference this week, I got into a conversation with a researcher at Meta. He enthusiastically told me about his research there on gaze tracking.
Specifically, his research group is trying to analyze where people are looking to figure out what they are thinking. In my mind I found myself turning that into a Black Mirror episode.
In my episode, a large unnamed corporation is able to figure out all sorts of things about people from where those people are looking. At one point the corporation’s A.I. figures out that two people are secretly having an affair.
The corporation immediately proceeds to use this knowledge to blackmail the unfortunate couple. The plot twist: We find out that this practice is the corporation’s major source of revenue.
Is that too dark?