It would be deeply wrong to use such an algorithm to add detail to blurry CCTV images in order to incriminate someone. I don't think every police force, security firm, security agency etc will agree with me on this and that concerns me. Police in my country are already using live facial recognition in some areas.
It would be deeply useless. It produces plausible wrong answers. Those are the worst kind of wrong answers, because they are red herrings with statistical near certainty, and yet convincing enough to generate bias.
I agree and I don't want these incorrect answers to be made more plausible
Really? You don't think the police are interested in depixelating faces?
I think the police would, if they are doing their jobs (a big "if") be completely uninterested in an algorithm that is the direct equivalent of an unreliable eyewitness confabulating a plausible face for a photofit.