It's an interactive billboard, which uses a high-definition camera to scan pedestrians and identify their gender before showing a specific ad. The built-in system has a 90% accuracy rate in analysing a person’s facial features and determining if they’re male or female.

The ad campaign will run for two weeks and hopes to raise £250,000 in donations during the next four months.
But what puzzles me about this otherwise technically quite clever campaign is: why deliberately cut off half of their potential donors simply because they're male? If, as Plan UK says, the purpose is to give guys a taste "of what it's like to have basic choices taken away", it's highly likely that males will simply shrug their shoulders and keep on walking, without bothering to access the website later.
Now, if the facial recognition billboard was for - let's say - a female sanitary product, a women-only viewing might make sense, but this segregation-by-sex may well cost Plan UK some sponsors, and thus makes no sense to me...
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