A recent study by the British organization Internet Matters has highlighted a significant gap between sophisticated age-verification technologies and the creative methods used by minors to circumvent them. Despite the “million-dollar” investments by tech giants into artificial intelligence and facial recognition, the report suggests that these systems are often defeated by remarkably low-cost, “cents-on-the-dollar” tactics. The survey, which gathered data from 1,000 young people in the United Kingdom, found that half of the respondents consider current age-verification blocks easy to bypass. One of the most prevalent methods involves using a makeup pencil to draw a fake mustache , which can successfully trick algorithms designed to estimate age based on facial features. Kids are using fake mustaches to bypass age verification in the UK Other reported techniques include: Pointing cameras at high-resolution photos of adults or fictional characters with mature features.…