Since Friday it seems anyone with a selfie camera and a computer has been submitting their pictures to Microsoft’s how-old.net age and sex guessing robot.

The accuracy of the tool is debatable, and in most cases just plain offensive to the user, so once people got over that initial shock there was always going to be a lot of fun had.

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The internet certainly delivered on that front, here’s how:

 It added to breaking news coverage

We may not know the name of the #RoyalBaby yet but at least we know how old she is. pic.twitter.com/atxkJItBMy

— Nicky Ryan (@NickyRyan_) May 2, 2015

Showed it was a very good liar

Why the internet is FREAKING OUT over the trauma (and joy) of How-Old: http://t.co/1vVe94Jvsv pic.twitter.com/GgBqmfG8Qg — ELLE Magazine (US) (@ELLEmagazine) May 3, 2015

Helped us analyse #auspol even more

Australian politicians put through Microsoft’s How Old Do I Look software http://t.co/cOvW9ux9Cv via @smh #auspol

— Meta Starostin (@Snow_Crash) May 1, 2015

It made people very confused

Well @Microsoft, which one is it?? #HowOldRobot pic.twitter.com/RdQpvL3KpS — Carolina Hurricanes (@NHLCanes) April 30, 2015

And has not been great for self-esteem

THIS IS SOME WHITE NONSENSE. #HowOldRobot pic.twitter.com/TOIlkaH8Za

— rishi (@rmagia) April 30, 2015

But more than anything, world productivity has dropped massively

had to waste some time on this #HowOldRobot pic.twitter.com/mO9GqFqGju — krysty (@rystyk) May 1, 2015