AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 14h ago6/10
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Toward Ethical Facial Age Estimation: A Generalized Zero-Shot Benchmark Without Training on Children's Data
Researchers propose an ethical benchmark for facial age estimation that excludes children's data during training, addressing privacy and legal concerns in AI development. Testing nine state-of-the-art methods reveals severe performance degradation (46.4% average) when models encounter unseen age groups, exposing a critical gap between current practices and responsible data governance.