Though it almost certainly won’t work, it is a telling sign of where the field is heading
The original post: /r/privacy by /u/DanCoco on 2024-11-04 22:25:25.

From this 2022 article:

Though it almost certainly won’t work, it is a telling sign of where the field is heading

Corsight AI, a facial recognition subsidiary of the Israeli AI company Cortica, purports to be devising a solution […] using DNA to create a model of a face that can then be run through a facial recognition system. It is a task that experts in the field regard as scientifically untenable.

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Corsight also has been criticized in the past for exaggerating the capabilities and accuracy of its face recognition system, which it calls the “most ethical facial recognition system for highly challenging conditions,”