Oh, what the heck. Let me make a couple of observations- one personal and one professional.
I have idly looked through bins of old photos in antique stores up and down the east coast for quite a while (I like old landscape/architecture photos) and never in the history of ever looked at a cabinet of an old guy with a mustache and Edwardian clothes and thought ‘damn, that’s …’ . The odds of it being a pro ball player are close to zero and certainly even more remote are the odds of it being an all time great. The odds of me winning the NYC Marathon are better.
On a professional level, as a career prosecutor, I can say that blind reliance on facial recognition software is misplaced at best. I know of several cases where criminal charges were brought based solely on such comparisons which were 100% false and led to dismissal of charges and civil actions for wrongful arrest. It may not be as ‘junk’ science as bitemark analysis or lead analysis for matching spent projectiles to other unused cartridges but it’s not far off.
Plus, what the doc in post 28 said.
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