[jogundas]

The article quotes him as saying "I did Google reverse image search for their profile photos". I am in Europe and Google reverse image search for faces of people certainly does not work. Is that a recent change? Is that local to Europe?

[unreal37]

I've been doing that for years.

What do you mean "doesn't work"?

Example of how it works for me: https://share.getcloudapp.com/qGuob6D0

I picked a photo of a journalist at random. It identified her.

[blackbrokkoli]

I don't think its analyzing the actual face. It probably only works when the literal same image (maybe cropped or with varying quality) is posted elsewhere, which probably not unlikely for forum profile pictures etc, or with journalists for that matter.

I might be mistaken though.