🧐AI predicts how old children are. How safe is it?
Today, any content is usually limited by age, indicating the minimum number of years of its potential consumer. Everyone knows the labeling of films 18+. And in most social networks, users over the age of 13 can independently create accounts. Unsurprisingly, facial recognition technologies are being used to determine the age of content consumers or users. Looking further, AI can predict what a person will look like in old age: remember the recent boom in FaceApp.
Likewise, Yoti's age solutions have a margin of error of less than 3 years for a range of 6 to 60 years. For users under 25 years of age, the margin of error is less than 1.5 years. In the next few weeks, they will launch in major supermarket chains in the UK, for example, to prevent the sale of alcohol to minors. Yoti trained her neural networks using hundreds of thousands of images of people's faces from their official documents (passports and driver's licenses). Due to the high risk of leakage of such confidential data, other players in the face recognition market say that age verification should, if possible, be done without analyzing the face itself or other biometric data.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-predicts-how-old-children-are/