Other people / David Horvitz.

"Other People is a collection of digital photographs found using facial recognition software. David Horvitz sent photographs of his own face to conduct these searches. The photographs presented here are misidentifications, errors that AI technology deemed to be the artists face but are not. These photographs are "other people," individuals unknown to Horvitz, with a slight familiarity and similarity, living parallel lives. The ethics of these image databases are ambiguous. They are formed from digital photographs dredged from the internet. In most cases, the authors (and the people depicted) of these images have no idea their photographs have been copied and monetized. Law enforcement agencies are among the customers of these databases, using them to enhance techniques of surveillance and control. This work was inspired by research on training materials for East German border guards at Checkpoint Charlie, found in the Wende Museum collection."--From text at end of volume.