This is profoundly stupid
I can already see issues with this. Different races and ethnicities within those races “age” at different rates. I was well into my 30s before people outside my group believed I was over 18 consistently. Also, I can see this being abused by law enforcement and state entities. Very stupid.
I’d bet their algorithm is heavily trained on certain races and under trained on others.
FTC already has allowances for face recognition of children stuff, just not for age checking so this seems like it could go through. Also they state that images are deleted as soon as they are processed, which is a requirement in general for children’s data, but we all know that can change in the future. then they’ll get a tiny fine that is just the cost of business but in the mean time they sold your childs face data to ten thousand ai startups