38-year old woman suing Microsoft because its #HowOldRobot-app said she looked 53.

#TooOldRobot ? - Woman sues Microsoft for failing to recognise her youthful face

A Maryland woman is suing Microsoft because their popular How-Old.net-app misjudged her age, mistaking Shelly Myrone's 38-year old face for that of a 15 year older woman. Myrone claims that the app has caused her "immense mental distress" and that the program "must be faulty" for making such a grave mistake.

The How Old Am I app made by Microsoft exploded with popularity on social media this week - suddenly, out of nowhere, everyone wanted to know their perceived age and the facial analysis algorithm in the application was able to do just that - with a natural error margin. While most of us took the app's insulting assumption that we were 5 years older on the chin, Shelly Myrone would have none of it.

"I tried taking pictures at all different angels, in different rooms, with different facial expressions, but the damn app said I looked 53 everytime. There is obviously something very wrong with the app"

Myrone says to us over the phone

"This app has caused me a whole deal of psychological trauma and I won't let them get away with such blatant ill-intentioned digital slander. We live in an age where women are constantly judged by their looks and I'm not going to have a machine tell me I look close to my mother's age. Microsoft has a responsibility to make all women feel beautiful."

Myrone wants 1 million dollars for the inconvenience she has felt this week, along with the depression that has rendered her “unable to work or look at life with any kind of optimism"

But the case isn’t so clear-cut to everyone. At first, when Myrone presented her grievance to a law firm, her then-to-be lawyer thought he was being hoodwinked, as the case sounded too preposterous to be true, but evidently Myrone was able to convince the lawman to side with him.

"This is a battle between the common woman and a big fat cat corporation that's supposed to be make its users feel better about themselves, there's no chance I'm losing this"

says Myrone at the end of our call

This case is unprecedented in US legal history and has attracted national attention. Never before has a face analyzing internet app been the center of any court case, but here at The Stately Harold, we bet it's not the last. We will update you on developments as they happen, in the meantime, to discuss this story, tweet under #TooOldRobot