Canadian photographer Francois Brunelle spent 12 years tracking down real life Doppelgängers — two individuals who are not related but could pass for identical twins — and photographing them. He calls his project “I’m Not a Look-Alike,” and it’s starting to get some well-deserved attention.
Article with more pictures: https://www.chasejarvis.com/blog/me-myself-and-i-francois-brunelle-and-his-doppelganger-project-find-your-look-alike/
Photograph website: http://www.francoisbrunelle.com/webn/e-project.html
Makes you wonder how many people got jailed for a crime they didn’t commit before the widespread use of fingerprints and DNA just because they resembled someone else.
People still do.
I can’t find the study but people over estimate whether someone looks familiar, especially in stressful situations.
There are people in prison right now because they look like the perpetrator.
Imma give you a guess as to the races of these people.
The wikipedia article on eyewitness testimony goes into more detail.
If you want to listen to a fun episode of Behind the Bastards regarding this topic:
Behind the Bastards: Part One: The Bastards of Forensic Science
https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-one-the-bastards-of-forensic-science
Very cool, I wonder how he finds the matches.
This dude is trying to categorize all the different NPC variants.
We always joked about this when I worked at a really busy pizza place, how around the corner er all the npcs would spawn and sometimes you’d get the same one in a row just rendered a different color outfit
And this illustrates a problem of using facial recognition databases as a security measure. False positives lead to false convictions.
Am I the only one that thinks most of them don’t look that similar?
I feel like that’s because we actually get to see them side by side. But if you were friends with one and saw the other as a stranger out in public, say the grocery store, it might warrant a “holy shit, I just saw someone who looks exactly like you,” text accompanied by an awkwardly zoomed in picture of them in the frozen foods aisle.
You’re not alone, I thought the same thing… They don’t look that similar, they would make a really trash “spot the difference” challenge.
Ok now imagine you’re the only witness to a crime and the doppleganger walks in. You wouldn’t question your recollection??
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