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		tsewlliw on Feb 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google app analyzes selfies and finds doppelganger... Conceptually, this is rather like lossy compression with a shared dictionary. In practice your likeness has still been trasmitted. Jpeg files are after all just numbers too, merely less specialized.

motoboi on Feb 9, 2021 [–]

Agreed. But you’ll only be able to reconstruct the original face if you have a photo from it. Which google probably has anyway.

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