I had thought they were going to say that they use celebrity images to train the systems. Because celebrities are an incredible training set for facial recognit

I had thought they were going to say that they use celebrity images to train the systems. Because celebrities are an incredible training set for facial recognition. Consider: You want to train a one-shot matching system for taking photos from crime scene cameras and searching a database of drivers licence photos. You need a training set of different images of the same person, and then lots of those sets for different people. Boom: celebrities! They have thousands of photos from thousands of angles. Poorly taken shots by paparazzi. Stills from films at a zillion different angles. And some nice, face-on shots like a drivers licence photo. (Heck, if it's the police they have access to that celebrity's actual DL photo). The one nice side about training that way is that most celebrities are really good looking people, so only the really pretty criminals will be caught thanks to training bias.