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Using the AI techniques described in corporate patents, [*Stealing Ur Feelings*](https://stealingurfeelin.gs) learns your deepest secrets just by analyzing your face.\n\nIt [won the 2020 Webby Award](https://winners.webbyawards.com/2020/video/immersive-and-mixed-reality/documentary-immersive-and-mixed-reality/126432/stealing-ur-feelings) for Best Immersive Documentary.\n\nThe project [premiered on the internet](https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/09/23/introducing-stealing-ur-feelings-an-interactive-documentary-about-big-tech-ai-and-you/) on September 23, 2019. \n\nIt world premiered at the [2019 Tribeca Film Festival](https://www.tribecafilm.com/festival/archive/stealing-ur-feelings-2019) and was exhibited at the [Tate Modern](https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/tate-exchange/workshop/higher-resolution). It was profiled by the [Museum of the Moving Image](http://scienceandfilm.org/articles/3216/stealing-ur-feelings), [*Scientific American*](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-video-watches-you-back/), [*Engadget*](https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/02/stealing-ur-feelings-ar-film-facial-recognition-tribeca-2019-kanye-pizza/), [CBC News](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/stealing-ur-feelings-1.5362954), and many more; it made the front page of [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337863); [MIT selected it for inclusion in DocuBase](https://docubase.mit.edu/project/stealing-ur-feelings/), a curated database of people and projects transforming documentary in the digital age.\n\n[*Stealing Ur Feelings*](https://stealingurfeelin.gs) was somewhat notoriously plagiarized by the *Financial Times;* this event was chronicled in an [article for *The American Prospect*](https://prospect.org/culture/stealing-ur-website-emotion-recognition-ai-financial-times/).\n\nThe project began life as an application for Mozilla's 2018 [awards for art and advocacy exploring artificial intelligence](https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/06/04/mozilla-announces-225000-for-art-and-advocacy-exploring-artificial-intelligence/).\n\n### :newspaper: Press and recognition\n[Scientific American](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-video-watches-you-back/)\n\n[Museum of the Moving Image](http://scienceandfilm.org/articles/3216/stealing-ur-feelings)\n\n[Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337863)\n\n[Engadget](https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/02/stealing-ur-feelings-ar-film-facial-recognition-tribeca-2019-kanye-pizza/)\n\n[CBC News](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/stealing-ur-feelings-1.5362954)\n\n[<em>Let's Go with Sabrina Marandola</em> on CBC Radio One](https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-383-lets-go/clip/15748048-stealing-ur-feelings) / [.mp3](https://noahlevenson.com/audio/stealing-ur-feelings-cbc-radio-one.mp3)\n\n[MIT DocuBase](https://docubase.mit.edu/project/stealing-ur-feelings/)\n\n[Adweek](https://www.adweek.com/digital/mozilla-wants-to-know-if-snapchat-and-other-platforms-are-stealing-ur-feelings/)\n\n[It's Nice That](https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/noah-levenson-stealing-ur-feelings-digital-011119)\n\n[Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessedamiani/2020/01/30/the-top-50-xr-experiences-of-2019/)\n\n[El Pais](https://elpais.com/cultu","github_created_at":"2018-07-09T19:54:47+00:00","created_at":"2026-07-11T12:27:08.496398+00:00","updated_at":"2026-07-11T12:27:13.340131+00:00","categories":[{"slug":"vector-databases","name":"Vector Databases","url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/categories/vector-databases","markdown_url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/categories/vector-databases.md","api_url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/api/graphcanon/categories/vector-databases"},{"slug":"speech-audio","name":"Speech & Audio","url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/categories/speech-audio","markdown_url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/categories/speech-audio.md","api_url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/api/graphcanon/categories/speech-audio"},{"slug":"computer-vision","name":"Computer Vision","url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/categories/computer-vision","markdown_url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/categories/computer-vision.md","api_url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/api/graphcanon/categories/computer-vision"}],"tags":[{"slug":"art","name":"art"},{"slug":"awards","name":"awards"},{"slug":"ai","name":"ai"},{"slug":"ar","name":"ar"},{"slug":"emotion-recognition","name":"emotion-recognition"},{"slug":"augmented-reality","name":"augmented-reality"},{"slug":"emotion","name":"emotion"},{"slug":"computer-vision","name":"computer-vision"}],"trust":{"provenance":{"is_fork":false,"github_id":140335320,"owner_type":"User","methodology":"github_public_v1","parent_repo":null,"near_duplicate_slugs":[]},"computed_at":"2026-07-11T12:27:09.209Z","maintenance":{"label":"Dormant","score":18,"methodology":"github_public_v1","releases_90d":0,"days_since_push":1172,"last_release_at":null},"security_summary":{"status":"no_lockfile","scanner":null,"low_count":0,"high_count":0,"last_scan_at":"2026-07-11T12:27:10.690Z","medium_count":0,"scan_profile":"none","critical_count":0}},"capability_facts":{"scan":{"source":"repo_scan","observed_at":"2026-07-11T12:27:10.429Z"},"languages":{"value":["javascript"],"source":"github.language","observed_at":"2026-07-11T12:27:10.429Z"}}}}