AI captured similarities fingerprint similarities in individuals not related to traditional loops, whorls and endpoints.
Human investigators have trusted fingerprints for more than 100 years — but what if a core belief behind that system was wrong all along ?
— Read on www.leravi.org/new-ai-discovery-claims-fingerprints-arent-truly-unique-and-it-could-rewrite-forensic-science-16521/
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As I pointed out nearly two years ago after hearing a Double Loop Podcast on the topic, you need to differentiate between the hype surrounding the study and the actual study itself. If you read the actual study (“Unveiling intra-person fingerprint similarity via deep contrastive learning”), it refers to “similarity” but does NOT refer to “uniqueness.” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi0329