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Pay for your daily essentials with just a glance at the register, using our new facial recognition technology.
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Does it work with black people? Theres a bit of a history with facial recognition training and varying features.
Didn't apple get sued because a Chinese woman's sister could unlock her phone?
... Just googled it and there's multiple cases with Chinese users, including a coworker and a woman's son.
I wonder if there's a technical reason or just lack of neural network training on some communities.
I'm specifically thinking of the nose bridge and cheeks area of people with some Asian relatives in their gene pool. The sunken nose bridge and puffy cheeks appearance is so prevalent that a lot of prescription glasses are sold as "Asian fit" so that it clears the cheeks. My partner is half Laotian and half white/Hispanic, and she needs Asian fit glasses despite not looking particularly Asian.
I'm wondering if their facial recognition software focuses too much on the shape of the middle of the face, which could lead to close Asian relatives, who share a lot of the same genes, to be scanned as the same person as they may have the exact same nose-cheek area shape.
It works for me and my brother too. We are european though. We don't even look that similar
Yeah it works great they don't even need to register, the system says they already did.
Heck of a credit card bill, for that one guy. I wonder if theres a sneaky line in the TOS about how "best effort" is good enough and sticks him with the bill anyway.