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\nMicrosoft is phasing out public access to a number of AI-powered facial analysis tools \u2014 including one that claims to identify a subject\u2019s emotion from videos and pictures. <\/p>\n
Such \u201cemotion recognition\u201d tools have been criticized by experts. They say not only do facial expressions that are thought to be universal differ across different populations but that it is unscientific to equate external displays of emotion with internal feelings. <\/p>\n

\u201cCompanies can say whatever they want, but the data are clear,\u201d Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University who conducted a review into the subject of AI-powered emotion recognition, told The Verge <\/em>in 2019<\/a>. \u201cThey can detect a scowl, but that\u2019s not the same thing as detecting anger.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThey can detect a scowl, but that\u2019s not the same thing as detecting anger.\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nThe decision is part of a larger overhaul of Microsoft\u2019s AI ethics policies<\/a>. The company\u2019s updated Responsible AI Standards (first outlined in 2019) emphasize accountability to find out who uses its services and greater human oversight into where these tools are applied. <\/p>\n
In practical terms, this means Microsoft will limit access to some features<\/a> of its facial recognition services (known as Azure Face) and remove others entirely. Users will have to apply to use Azure Face for facial identification, for example, telling Microsoft exactly how and where they\u2019ll be deploying its systems. Some use cases with less harmful potential (like automatically blurring faces in images and videos) will remain open-access. <\/p>\n
In addition to removing public access to its emotion recognition tool, Microsoft is also retiring Azure Face\u2019s ability to identify \u201cattributes such as gender, age, smile, facial hair, hair, and makeup.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cExperts inside and outside the company have highlighted the lack of scientific consensus on the definition of \u2018emotions,\u2019 the challenges in how inferences generalize across use cases, regions, and demographics, and the heightened privacy concerns around this type of capability,\u201d wrote Microsoft\u2019s chief responsible AI officer, Natasha Crampton, in a blog post announcing the news<\/a>. <\/p>\n
Microsoft says that it will stop offering these features to new customers from today, June 21st, while existing customers will have their access revoked on June 30th, 2023. <\/p>\n
\nMicrosoft\u2019s Seeing AI app will still offer emotion recognition<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nHowever, while Microsoft is retiring public<\/em> access to these features, it will continue using them in at least one of its own products: an app named Seeing AI<\/a> that uses machine vision to describe the world for people with visual impairments. <\/p>\n
In a blog post<\/a>, Microsoft\u2019s principal group product manager for Azure AI, Sarah Bird, said that tools such as emotion recognition \u201ccan be valuable when used for a set of controlled accessibility scenarios.\u201d It\u2019s not clear if these tools will be used in any other Microsoft products.<\/p>\n
Microsoft is also introducing similar restrictions to its Custom Neural Voice feature, which lets customers create AI voices based on recordings of real people (sometimes known as an audio deepfake). <\/p>\n
The tool \u201chas exciting potential in education, accessibility, and entertainment,\u201d writes Bird, but she notes that it \u201cis also easy to imagine how it could be used to inappropriately impersonate speakers and deceive listeners.\u201d Microsoft says that in the future, it will limit access to the feature to \u201cmanaged customers and partners\u201d and \u201censure the active participation of the speaker when creating a synthetic voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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