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Re:Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful w... by achairapart on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @05:16AM (#28219095)
Does it have to be a photo of an actual human?

Why not a work of graphic/art? A unicorn perhaps?

Re:Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful w... by itronitron on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @05:59AM (#28219279)
I think that's a better option as the 'thispersondoesnotexist' images can't be guaranteed to not actually look exactly like someone.
Re:Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful w... by _0ffh on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @08:50AM (#28220346)
That could always happen, no matter how you generate the photo, but it's all but impossible that they'd also have the matching name.
Re:Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful w... by yvoschaap on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @06:17AM (#28219378)
Pretty sure the Google algo would feature a isHumanDisplayed() for the photo's that would qualify.
Re:Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful w... by achairapart on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @07:31AM (#28219821)
But is Google looking for a human or it just picks the first homonymous human as a poorly automated fallback because there is no other data available?

As far as I know, this worked at least for people like Banksy, Vincent van Gogh, the Zodiac killer and a few others.

Re:Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful w... by sumosudo on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @06:31AM (#28219473)
From what I can tell, Google engineers would actually write `isObjectDisplayed("Human")`