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Re:Artist matches influencer photos with surveillance footage by brk on Saturday September 24, 2022 @12:51PM (#32964396)
This was almost certainly a manual process by the artist. The state of the art of commonly available surveillance AI products would not add much in terms of making this process faster or more accurate. (source: I work in surveillance AI).

IMO this is really more a of a proof of concept or statement on where things COULD go if currently technology trends progress for another decade or so.

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Re:Artist matches influencer photos with surveillance footage by roywiggins on Saturday September 24, 2022 @12:54PM (#32964425)
Yeah, it's a kind of sleight-of-hand or a magic trick- who would spend hours scrubbing the Times Square cameras to match up with Instagram posts? An artist making something like this would.

Magic tricks often operate in the same way, you have some meticulous preparation that can produce a specific result, one time, under specific conditions. If you obfuscate the preparation and people don't realize how specific the conditions are, then it looks like something more profound happened than really did.

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