Jennings Brown, Vocativ:
When Fu Gui was six, he was abducted on his way home from school in Chongqing, China. He was then trafficked to Quznahou, about 1,000 miles away, where he was sold to foster parents. Now, 27 years after he was taken from his family, he has been reunited with them. And it’s all thanks to the latest cross-age facial recognition technology from Chinese tech giant Baidu.
And:
In 2009, nearly two decades after Gui was kidnapped after school, he uploaded the earliest photo he had of himself, taken when he was 10, adding it to the database of tens of thousands of images. In January of this year, Gui’s father uploaded a photo of Gui when he was 4.
Baidu’s AI was capable of matching the two images, taken six years apart.
This is a breathtaking application of facial recognition technology. And this tech is becoming more sophisticated, and facial data more ubiquitously available every single day.
This is both heartbreaking and inspiring but I can’t read it without a dark awareness that the power of these technologies can just as easily be put to use to cause harm. This has always been true, but unlike nuclear weaponry, for example, which is still diabolically difficult to actually develop, digital technologies can increasingly be used by the most ordinary (and extraordinary) criminal, terrorist, tyrant etc.
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Are people in witness protection allowed to upload images to the web? How does this tech help women who’ve left abusive relationships along with the kids?