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Google Photos face recognition...

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Thejoyfulstar · 02/05/2022 14:08

...is so creepy!

I had to provide a picture of myself recently (someone was making a leaving card for a mutual friend). I thought I would scroll through my Google photos to see if there was anything suitable there. I know that they are categorised by person, so I clicked a picture of myself and loads of photos of me came up (obviously).

What creeped me out was that there were photos of me as a baby (photos of old photos). There is one picture and I look about 10 months old. In another, it's my first day in primary school so I am about 4. I wouldn't expect anyone to be able to match my baby photos to what I look like now. I'm 40 this year and the software is so sophisticated that it can identify me from a photo taken 39 years ago when I was a baby.

I don't know why, but this made me feel really uncomfortable. Its too smart! What do you all think about face recognition technology?

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BertieBotts · 02/05/2022 14:42

It's not that good. Mine gets DS2 and DS3 confused all the time and has multiple versions of each of us. I amuse myself by giving them funny names.

Onceuponatimethen · 02/05/2022 14:45

It can’t tell apart my two dses or my nieces and nephews!

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