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Google's Museum App Finds Your Fine Art Doppelganger (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the facial-hair-required dept.

The latest update to the Google Arts & Culture app now lets you take a selfie, and using image recognition, finds someone in its vast art collection that most resembles you. It will then present you and your fine art twin side-by-side, along with a percentage match, and let you share the results on social media. Engadget reports: The app, which appears to be unfortunately geo-restricted to the United States, is like an automated version of an article that circulated recently showing folks standing in front of portraits at museums. In many cases, the old-timey people in the paintings resemble them uncannily, but, other than in rare cases, that's not the case at all with Google's app. Google matched me with someone who doesn't look like me in the slightest, a certain Sir Peter Francois Bourgeois, based on a painting hanging in Dulwich Picture Gallery. Taking a buzz around the internet, other folks were satisfied with their matches, some took them as a personal insult, and many were just plain baffled, in that order.

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  1. Thanks, Google - but I call shenanigans by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's no way I most resemble Edvard Munch's The Scream .

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    1. Re:Thanks, Google - but I call shenanigans by PPH · · Score: 2

      You think that's bad? Google sent me back a picture of Muhammad.

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  2. Bit by bit by BlacKSacrificE · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The cynic in me see's this as just another ploy by Google to give up biometric data. And people will happily feed the machine without so much as a second thought because they want to see which artwork they look like? Is that really worth the cost?

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    1. Re: Bit by bit by pslytely+psycho · · Score: 2

      "Why do people reject Islam and Allah? "

      Easy.
      BACON!!!!

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  3. Re:Homosexuality is wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    Sooo gay. Coping much?

  4. Prism now wants your pic by AHuxley · · Score: 2

    Strange how much US social media and web 2.0 now wants your pic?
    Who wants to give their pic to the companies that helped the security services?
    PRISM (surveillance program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Facebook's New Captcha Test: 'Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face'
    https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
    Facebook Will Use Facial Recognition To Tell You When People Upload Your Picture
    https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
    Now its all about "art".... to get your selfie.

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  5. Building a face database by QuietLagoon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A nice way to get people to submit a good image of their face so that google can build a database of faces and try to catch up to facebook in this area.

  6. I laughed so hard that I couldn't breathe. by jmhysong · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just saw this tweet about that app tonight. Hilarious! (NSFW) https://twitter.com/RoryAlbane...

  7. Additional functionality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will tell you whether your face is a hot dog or not.