# Distinguish between faces of real living person and pictured person

**URL:** <https://forum.mapillary.com/t/distinguish-between-faces-of-real-living-person-and-pictured-person/10363>\
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**Created:** [May 5, 2026, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/distinguish-between-faces-of-real-living-person-and-pictured-person/10363 "2026-05-05T07:26:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![u06484](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c0e974/32.png) [@u06484](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/u06484)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/distinguish-between-faces-of-real-living-person-and-pictured-person/10363/1 "2026-05-05T07:26:15Z")

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In uploaded photos of boards representing historic persons or similar cases all their faces have been made unrecognizable. I think this is not necessary for privacy reasons. Do we have a chance to teach the AI beeing able to distingiuish between those two cases?

Here an example to make my question more clear:

 ![An9clZKbmLpvRAfSCjoDfjQ0vqM1Orfw3upC2zONrmPHytAFRldL3UEjY2u6lz4K6GnidykrzjC64NavdrHEUvOWw-4eJdBMLAUc52dLI0vrYJnnbsnFh7CWUyIlVFo8ZAEH7rqFXSWFfOKQ_CY7rHc](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/mapillary/original/3X/9/a/9a8b2ff349d848c110375370b62fb92a168e4a91.jpeg)

greetings reinhard

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**Author:** ![filipc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/filipc/32/1103_2.png) [@filipc](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/filipc)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/distinguish-between-faces-of-real-living-person-and-pictured-person/10363/2 "2026-05-05T08:32:35Z")

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Afraid as it is of difamation, Meta will always take the safe side.

Except for scammers.