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Comment by tom_mellior | Hacker News Reader

> 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.

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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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