a chinese woman's phone unlocked by co-worker

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

A Woman In China Claims That Her iPhone X Was Unlocked By A Coworker’s Face, & It’s Raising Questions About Diversity In Tech

A woman in the city of Nanjing, China, claimed that her colleague was able to unlock her iPhone X using Face ID, according to the South China Morning Post. The woman, who was identified only by her surname, Yan, reportedly returned an iPhone X after she said her colleague was able to unlock it with the Face ID feature. She was reportedly given a new iPhone X, and the same thing allegedly happened again, she told the Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation. An Apple spokesperson speaking to Bustle says that the company can't confirm the details of the original story, but notes that there is an approximately one in 1 million chance that a random person from the population could unlock someone else's iPhone X using Face ID, compared with a 1 in 50,000 chance for Touch ID.

A white paper by Apple says that "The probability of a false match is different for twins and siblings that look like you as well as among children under the age of 13, because their distinct facial features may not have fully developed." Additionally, the Apple spokesperson tells Bustle that Face ID continues to learn as it's used, becoming able to recognize subtle changes in appearance such as facial hair or makeup. Despite these possibilities for a false match, the story is raising concerns on the internet about the importance of diversity in tech.

Some people on Twitter are suggesting that the reason the Face ID recognized both Chinese women's faces has to do with bias by programmers of the tool. In a Twitter thread that has now gone viral, with over 20,000 likes, TC Ivy, CEO of marketing company V3 Inbound said, "Devices can't be biased, but if the creators don't account for their own biases it shows up in things like Asian women being indistinguishable to iPhones and black hands not triggering sensors in soap machines."

Despite both women being able to unlock the same iPhone X, facial recognition has been successfully used in China for the past few years, according to the South China Morning Post, which reported that both the China Merchants Bank and the Agricultural Bank of China have been using the technology in their ATMs since 2015 without any reported problems.

 

[unit321]

Well, probably works for white faces. Asian folks, not so much, because we all look the same.

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

Yo.....i hope this dont sound fukked up but they do look the same

 

[Doobie Doo]

Cuz they look a like!!


Wait a minute

They say the same about us

 

[MoroccanBoy]

It's a well known fact that all Chinese people look the same. I can tell the difference with Japanese and other asian countries but I do t know how they've been breeding in China because they all look like identical twins

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

Cuz they look a like!!


Wait a minute

They say the same about us

We say the same about cacs. I think every race thinks the other races look the same.

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Well, probably works for white faces. Asian folks, not so much, because we all look the same.

Most non asian people think all asians look the same breh

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

The joke whites itself...

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

Too easy...

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Well, probably works for white faces. Asian folks, not so much, because we all look the same.

those too women look scarily alike

 

[West Coast Avenger]

So basically all you have to do is this...

...and you got yourself a new phone........

 

[L&HH]

We say the same about cacs. I think every race thinks the other races look the same.

Cross-Race effect:

Cross-race effect - Wikipedia

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Yo.....i hope this dont sound fukked up but they do look the same

I remember watching a documentary about early brain development. In one piece they showed that babies could easily identify differences between gorilla faces but as they grew older, they lost that ability because it wasn't useful. I'd imagine that's similar with human faces. If you grew up around in an Asian country, you'd be able to distinguish them pretty easily, but since you didn't you've likely lost that skill.

I'd also imagine that software wouldn't be as susceptible to this, tho, so I dunno about this chick's claims.

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

So basically all you have to do is this...

...and you got yourself a new phone........

 

[unit321]

So basically all you have to do is this...

...and you got yourself a new phone........

That Cuban got a lot of flack for that. It was pretty juvenile of him to do that.
I was like, whatever. I've got thick skin. If I can't handle a Cuban doing the slant eye thing, then I'm weak.
I'm not saying it was the right to do. I'm just saying I didn't take offense to it because I'm just not into politically correct offenses. I'll take it personally if he did it to my face, to me.

He can bury himself for his own mistakes. None of the pro-illegal immigrant activists backed him up on his "immigrant with struggle story and becomes a successful professional athlete" story. None. White folks flipped the script and backed the Asians.