‘Britain’s most tattooed man’ claims he is unable to watch porn as ‘new age check system mistakes his ink for a mask’
Britain’s most tattooed man says new UK age checks block him from p*rn sites as facial recognition mistakes his tattoos for a mask, calling the tech discriminatory.
This guy’s going to be dismissed and made the butt of jokes … but he shouldn’t be.
This is an accessible-to-non-experts demonstration of the flaws in facial recognition/verification and the dangers of this program. How many people have facial characteristics outside of the norm? “The norm” being what the recognition machine is trained on.
What about hypertrichinosis? Facial injury? Vitiligo? Or a different skin tone?
And what happens when this type of verification is used for essential social services access?
I myself could not open a bank account with a certain institution because the match-face-with-ID system kept failing. It didn’t tell me to take off a mask, sure, but it couldn’t reconcile my shorter hair and weight changes with an ID photo a few years old.
In that case, bank lost a customer. What if it were the only way I could book medical care?
Charlie Stross
Elena Rossini ⁂
Johanna, CanCon variant