Racism is bad enough with humans, but when computers start laying it into you? That just sucks. 。
It's something that happened to Richard Lee, a New Zealand citizen who is studying in Melbourne, Australia. 。
He was renewing his New Zealand passport recently online, when the automated system rejected his photo. 。
SEE ALSO:Glamour Brasil slammed after staff pose with 'slanty eyes' on Instagram 。It thought his eyes were closed, and hence didn't meet the country's passport picture requirements.。
So awkward. 。
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The screenshot was posted on the page of Australian DJs Mashd N Kutcher on Facebook, who said they were a friend of Lee's. 。
As for Lee himself, he thought it was pretty funny and isn't offended by it. 。 "I found it hilarious actually, not racist," he told 。Mashable 。
via Messenger. "It's pretty impressive that in the past 80 years we went from Turing Machines to a computer software that could read a face and determine that the eyes were smaller than usual." 。
It ended up being a minor inconvenience though. Lee had to try and get more photos taken because "there were shadows in the eyes or uneven lighting," the NZ passport office told him.。
"So I took a couple more at the post office and fortunately one of them went through," he said. 。
"So I took a couple more at the post office and fortunately one of them went through," he said. 。 Just another one of those Asian problems, it seems. 。[H/T。
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