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I thought exactly the same - and the photos chosen for the article don't really back up the point either. The pairs look like the same "person" to me, not one real and one fake.

Anyway I don't know anybody who busts out their truest expression of self to ride the subway.

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I wonder...

Sometimes I suspect my early morning public transport "if you don't turn that stupid ringtone down I'm gonna stab you in the face" self is closer to my "truest expression" than my "look at me having fun being the life of this party" social media fake-self...

OTOH my tram "oh I'm so sleepy I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" face is further from my "true self" than the Facebook photos of me making stupid shit with duct tape or standing in front of a radio telescope dish, or showing off a Lisp book.

So I think it cuts both ways.

> The pairs look like the same "person" to me, not one real and one fake.

I seem to be alone in this, but... they don't even look like the same person to me. Do we have any confirmation that the pairs show the same person? About 10 million Russian men look like the guys in the second pair of photos.

I think they just picked the two most striking examples for that article. Look at the rest here: https://birdinflight.com/ru/vdohnovenie/fotoproect/06042016-...

Most of them are clearly the same person.

I dunno. Some of them clearly are because you can see they have moles in the same place and stuff like that, but a bunch leave me dubious. For example, that woman with the dyed white hair: the hair looks much frizzier/curlier in one than the other. And some I wonder how the face algorithm could possibly have matched them up - the guy in the parka vs the soldier don't even have the same facial hair, never mind how the parka fuzz obscures most of his head. (And you can't see more than a quarter of the next woman's face!) I wonder how much of this matching was manual.

Did it have to match those exact photos? I think he took a photo (or a few), used that (or those) to find the social media account(s). Then he could use whatever photos of that person he wanted to match up with a photo he had teken.

Oh yeah I think it was clearly manual. He uses this app to find their VKontakte account, and then he picks a good picture from their page. It's an art project, not a study.

Ah, thanks for this. Yes, I agree, this page has examples that really are the same person. I find those more striking.

I have a friend from Czech who looks just like that guy. I was wondering the same.

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