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Why don't we get some side-by-sides between renders and real photos of people?

• jabretti 9y ago
  Here's what I found from googling: https://www.forensicsciencedegree.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/phenotyping1-1024x790.jpg https://www.forensicsciencedegree.org/wp-content/uploads/201... I really can't escape the thought that it's just pumping out a generic face of a particular race, though. I'd like to see the faces that it produces for a number of different-looking people of the same race. (The two faces in the linked article certainly look very much like "generic black man" and "generic black woman").
  • yathern 9y ago
    That, and the quality is low enough that you can sort of accidentally the differences between 'generic white woman' and 'actual white woman'
• avenoir 9y ago
  Here is an article [1] about someone who confessed of murder after his DNA sketch was released. It looks fairly close, but far from a match. [1] https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/man-confesses-to-murder-after-dna-based-model-released/ https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/man-confesses-to-murder-after-...
  • mikestew 9y ago
    That’s interesting, because the perp must have been looking for reasons that it looks like him, and found them, whereas I ask “look like anybody know? Nope.” even if the kid lived next door. If he’d just kept his mouth shut... Of course, I’ve always questioned police artist sketches, too. Almost all of them look like every/none white/Black/Hispanic man/woman I’ve ever known. There might be similarities to someone I know, but not enough that I’d have SWAT kicking down their door.
• danblick 9y ago
  There was one in an Economist article about this a few months ago: https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21728613-facial-technology-makes-another-advance-researchers-produce-images-peoples https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/217286...