alt Hacker NewsI have identical twin boys - when signing up for a bank account app and while completing all the associated hoops for ID, the second to do it got the rather dystopian error message 'an account has already been registered with this face'
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netsharc • today at 12:26 PM
One kid needs a goatie: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
cm2187 • today at 11:20 AM
What is strange is that even the best face recognition algorithms have false positive. So surely they must have planned for two unrelated customers resolving to the same embeddings.
ginko • today at 12:09 PM
Anyone have any idea how this can happen? Surely the boys have different first names, so how can the system mix them up?
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I wonder how it's possible they didn't think about this problem. Considering everyone involved in building this feature, not a single person thought about the possibility of twins or simply people who are very alike? Also, can't people open multiple accounts?