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In China, it has become popular for parents to use artificial intelligence (AI) to predict what their unborn baby’s face will look like.
Advertised on e-commerce platforms, the service claims it can “predict your baby’s future face from their four-dimensional ultrasound image”. It has attracted so much interest that it has gone viral.
Tens of thousands of customers have paid for this AI service. It costs from about 10 yuan (HK$10.74) to 30 yuan on China’s largest e-commerce platform Taobao, which belongs to Alibaba, the owner of the South China Morning Post.
The providers claim they can use AI to generate a picture of a newborn baby’s face from one or more ultrasound images.
Critics say the idea is flawed, and that the ultrasound scan is not an accurate representation of how a baby’s face will look after birth because it is a composite image from footage taken by several cameras.
