This Hipster Bar Only Lets in Genuine Hipsters
You probably didn’t even know there was such a thing as a hipster-only bar, did you? Well, there is (sort of) and if you plan on getting in, you better grow a beard, put on some glasses and wear those checkered shirts hipsters love so much.
The Hipster Bar isn’t technically a bar, but an art project thought up by English artist Max Dovey, who created a software that relies on artificial intelligence and face recognition technology to tell hipsters apart from regular folks. He has been touring the UK for the last two years, turning regular watering holes into pop-up hipster bars by having patrons pass his hipster test in order to gain entry. According to 28-year-old Dovey, his machine will only grant you entry if you register as over 90% hipster.
“It tears up friendship groups, and tears up families,” Max Dovey said about his unique Hipster Bar. Often the dad of a family will be able to come in, and the wife and the child have to watch outside, which I’m not too happy about. There has been an issue of trying to get the software to recognise female hipsters – so I’ve had to look further for more images of women so it wasn’t a very male bar.”
The pop-up Hipster Bar has a computer at the entrance which takes photos of patrons looking to get in and compares them with thousands of photos of hipsters and non-hipsters that Dovey constantly adds to its data base. After analyzing their faces, clothing and accessories, the AI decides if the person is hipster enough to be allowed in. If they score lower than 90% hipster, they are denied entry.
“It turns out that the older gentleman has a very high success rate, women with glasses, and some stylish clothes basically. Glasses, the beard, the checked shirt, and if you’ve got a coffee cup that really helps,” the London-based artist said.
Dovey says that he started out with just 1,000 photos of hipsters and 1,000 pictures of non-hipsters, and that made it relatively easy to get into the bar, but as he added more and more pictures, the AI made it harder and harder for patrons to gain entry unless they featured some truly hispstery accessories like beards and glasses
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Next we're going to see modern technology used to create bars that only allow non-Hipsters in!
All of which is a valid use of artificial intelligence . . .
We've had "gay bars" for a while...soon we can have bars using Big Data to admit only transsexuals, Snowflakes, Non-Snowflakes, members of the Alt-right, Ctrl-Right, anti-Alt-Right, Abortion Rights people, Anti-Abortion people, etc. All of these individuals screened by the latest technological innovations ensuring accuracy in the admissions process.
What this means is that all bars will only let in compatible people-- no more barroom brawls!