Iphone X is racist

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http://www.ladbible.com/news/weird-...an-unlock-her-iphone-20171215?c=1513362606834

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Apple have said their facial recognition software on the iPhone X is top-notch and that the chances of somebody else being able to unlock your phone is - literally - 'one in a million', a woman called Yan has already proved that's clearly not the case.

Hailing from Nanjing in China, Yan got her hands on an iPhone X, only to discover that her co-worker could easily unlock it with her face, too. Even after a major rejig of the configuration settings.
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While the story is slightly amusing as it plays off a well known stereotype I do wonder if Apple have perhaps rather arrogantly neglected to test this technology thoroughly on Asian faces... I mean white people are probably a minority as far as customers across the globe are concerned but I'd wager that a disproportionate number of white faces were used in testing.
 
Apple have said their facial recognition software on the iPhone X is top-notch and that the chances of somebody else being able to unlock your phone is - literally - 'one in a million', a woman called Yan has already proved that's clearly not the case.
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Out of millions of iPhones Xs sold this is the first I have heard of this happening, so when they say "Yan has already proved that's clearly not the case", do they mean that Yan has proved that the chances of it happening are even lower than one in a million? :p
 
weringo said:
Out of millions of iPhones Xs sold this is the first I have heard of this happening, so when they say "Yan has already proved that's clearly not the case", do they mean that Yan has proved that the chances of it happening are even lower than one in a million? :p
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This was first thought too.

Fake news story.
 
I would doubt lack of availability of Asian faces for testing. Silicon Valley is not short of highly qualified software engineers from an Asian background.
 
weringo said:
Out of millions of iPhones Xs sold this is the first I have heard of this happening, so when they say "Yan has already proved that's clearly not the case", do they mean that Yan has proved that the chances of it happening are even lower than one in a million? :p
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I think you're placing way too much weight on it being the first time you hearing of it - it also has problems with identical twins.
 
Thread title is no better than clickbait.

And this, what on earth is this?

I mean white people are probably a minority as far as customers across the globe are concerned but I'd wager that a disproportionate number of white faces were used in testing.
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String said:
Let's be honest, it's based on nothing other than what you want to believe.
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No it is based on there having been problems in the past with tech companies clearly not testing sufficiently on Asian faces, perhaps you're ignorant of this but for example several years ago we had the blinking problem with face recognition prompting this Time article entitled:

"Are Face-Detection cameras racist?"

http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1954643,00.html

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Vonhelmet said:
I’m sure you could find two white people that it would struggle with, but of course you know this.
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yes and if you bothered to read the thread you'd know this too - see comment re: identical twins
 
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