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Meta AI is analyzing teen faces but a 12yo kid with a fake mustache fooled it [U]

Meta AI is analyzing teen faces but a 12yo kid with a fake mustache fooled it [U]
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Meta’s latest attempt to comply with age verification requirements in Europe, Brazil and the US is to roll out AI-powered tech to analyse the faces of teenage users of Facebook and Instagram . The company says AI analysis will be used to estimate the ages of faces but that it does not amount to face recognition. Update: It doesn’t appear to be working too well – a 12yo kid fooled it by using an eyebrow pencil to draw a fake mustache … more…

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