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Re:China can apparently now identify citizens based on the w... by mentat on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @03:59PM (#18402368)
People said facial recognition was absolutely impossible a decade ago. Now we can remap one face to another in real time. The tech is there.
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Re:China can apparently now identify citizens based on the w... by jessaustin on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @05:54PM (#18403072)
The second thing you mention seems largely unrelated to the first. Deepfakes (especially live deepfakes) require extensive learning on extensive data sets. Sure, you could do facial recognition that way, but useful facial recognition would learn from a single still photo.
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