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Re:Artist matches influencer photos with surveillance footage by dleslie on Saturday September 24, 2022 @04:38PM (#32966356)
From the article:

> Then he enlisted an artificial intelligence (A.I.) bot, which scraped public Instagram photos taken in those locations, and facial-recognition software, which paired the Instagram images with the real-time surveillance footage.

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Re:Artist matches influencer photos with surveillance footage by roywiggins on Saturday September 24, 2022 @04:42PM (#32966389)
Well, that's what he says he did.

Why would he need an "AI which scraped public Instagram photos"? You can just ask Instagram for photos tagged "Times Square" and get loads of them. Totally unnecessary to teach an AI what Times Square looks like when there are a bazillion tagged photos of Times Square being posted every hour. Maybe you need a lot of them, but "bulk scraping lots of Instagram posts" isn't exactly AI.

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/timessquare/

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Re:Artist matches influencer photos with surveillance footage by dleslie on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @02:42PM (#32999341)
In order to identify specific individuals in those photos.
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