That and the following makes me suspect that this is a faked publicity stunt rather than a real prototype.
“The purpose of building this tool is not for misuse, and we are not releasing it,” Nguyen and Ardafiyo write in a document explaining the project. Instead, the students say their goal is to raise awareness that all this isn’t some dystopian future — it’s all possible now with existing technology.
testfactor@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They did mention a name. Publicly available database called PimEyes apparently.