Facial Recognition Called on to End Chatroulette’s Pervert Problem

Since Chatroulette's inception, the site's notorious genital-flashers have been driving off advertisers and normal folks more than the founders would like to admit. But now, thanks to a Business Insider contest called “Solve Chatroulette's Penis Problem and Help It Make Billions and Billions,” facial recognition may be coming to the rescue.

The contest winner, John Spyers, a senior project manager from Missouri, explains:

"Not one of the people I've encountered displaying their wares on Chatroulette shows their face. So, utilize a facial recognition scan or brief eye tracking scan before making connections. If there's no facial recognition, then pixilate [the] image and prompt to accept cam feed."

Why not go the other way and do penis recognition? The technology would be too easily fooled by a banana or other phallic object, Spyders said. And apparently a lot of people eat bananas on Chatroulette.