Microsoft is very aware of the backlash toward facial recognition platforms out there, and that is why they are now closing a significant project. In response to this. Microsoft has revealed that they will retire the facial recognition technology that they said can infer emotions as well as characteristics like age, gender, and her, which goes to show that the AI was very advanced and more informed. which is probably why they knew they had to shut it down because of the backlash, they could have faced because of potential issues and abuse of the system.
They raise privacy questions and it offers a framework that creates the potential for discrimination and other abuses. Although there was no clear consensus on the definition of emotions and no way to create a generalized link between expressions and emotions so we don’t know how that works out, but we do know that the company is now shutting it down because they probably know how advanced it has gotten.
New users for their Microsoft face programming framework will never get access to these attribute detection features anymore, and current customers will be able to use them only until June 30th, 2023, after which the company will fold the tech until control accessibility tools like their seeing AI for people with vision issues. The exit has come after the company shared its responsible AI standard framework with the public for the first time, illustrating the guidelines the tech firm talk with the decision-making process that includes a focus on principles like inclusion, privacy, and transparency which also represents the first big update to the standard since it was introduced in late 2019. Also, Microsoft is not the only company to have second thoughts about facial recognition, as IBM has also stopped working in that field over worries that their projects could be used for human rights abuses.