The Inquisitr - Tech

Social media users sharing pictures for the “10-Year Challenge” may be doing more than just showing their friends how much they’ve aged in the past decade — they could be helping a facial recognition algorithm learn how to detect aging, one tech writer claims.

In recent weeks, the so-called #10YearChallenge has spread across social media, calling on users to post a picture from a decade ago (or their first-ever social media profile picture, in some cases) and compare it to their most recent photo to show how much — or how little — they’ve changed. The trend has attracted millions of submissions, including many from celebrities, but tech expert Kate O’Neill thinks there could be a much more insidious reason for the trend.

In a viral thread on Twitter, O’Neill suggested that the “10-Year Challenge” trend is really just a way for someone to teach a facial recognition algorithm on

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