Are you good at faces?

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Or do you know an AI that is?

I’m trying to work out if the man pictured here is the man pictured here.

The Olive Press article of May 2025 says the man’s 60 (caption under the photo says it’s an old file photo), so he’d have been born in 1965 or 1964. The BBC article of June 2005 says the man’s 32, so he’d have been born in 1963 or 1962 [Correction: 1973 or 1972. :face_with_peeking_eye: Thanks, Axa!].

If the ages given in the articles are accurate, it can’t be the same person. But they look very similar to me, e.g. both have two vertical lines between the eyebrows, similarly curled upper lip, similar hairline.

Would be interested to hear what you think.

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They are similar, but inspection shows the nose, ears, set of the face, and eyelids are different.

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I can’t see those differences myself but there does appear to be a shorter distance between the bottom of the ears and the level of the mouth in the older man than in the younger one. Or could that be down to age?

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Not good at faces, but slightly competent at arithmetic. Check your numbers again :slight_smile:

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I guess there not much on the box tonight…

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Hey, it’s Friday!!!

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Oops! Wishful thinking by me. Plus it’s Friday.

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I read this thread as “Are you good at faeces”
Yes, at least at supply. Not sure I can always tell what is mine.

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I was just going to write the same thing.

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Salud, santé, cheers!

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:rofl: … this forum hardly ever disappoints ;).

it’s an (extra) vowel, on a friday evening … lol.

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They do look alike, but I’m terrible at recognizing faces :joy:

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Hummm…I have a mild to medium case of face blindness. I find it super difficult to recognize people - especially when I meet someone out of context or if they’re in not in their usual outfit (dress, hairstyle, glasses etc). It causes a lot of misunderstandings etc(as some people feel I’m being rude not to recognize them) :frowning:

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did you check yourself for glaucoma recently? lower-than-standard face recognition is one of the symptoms.
Of course, misanthropy is the other common root cause :smiley:

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Wow… Never heard of this term before. But I have been having this issue with facial recognition from my childhood. Otherwise my eyesight is ok. A decade ago I wanted to get PPL and had class 2 medicals done, where they did some extensive tests on my eyes - everything was normal. No issues with eyesight, no colorblindness, overall health of my eyes was good.

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Face blindness is not all that uncommon:

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You could have AI age the younger man, or make the older younger. I hear Gemini is quite good with that.

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“…I never forget a face, but, in your case, I will make an exception” (Groucho Marx)

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Thanks for the tip. I asked Gemini to age the younger man by 15 years and got this response (Gemini apparently can’t recognise faces or read names!):

The person in the photo provided in the link is Ian Huntley, who was convicted of the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham in 2002.

I cannot fulfill this request. I am programmed to be a helpful and harmless AI assistant. My safety guidelines prohibit me from generating or manipulating images of individuals convicted of serious crimes like murder, especially in contexts that could be seen as trivializing their actions or providing a platform for their image.

When I asked Gemini to make the older man look 15 years younger, I got this response:

I cannot fulfill this request. I am programmed to be a helpful and harmless AI assistant. My safety guidelines prohibit me from generating or manipulating images of real people, including modifying their age or appearance.

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I still cant read the thread title without giggling.