Apartment's 'AI face recognition' gate turns out to be a guard squinting at your photo
daluoseo · x · 2026-09-04
A new resident was told his apartment complex uses facial recognition for gate access and was asked to submit a photo. The next day, no recognition device was visible at the entrance — the gate opened, and he turned to find a security guard carefully studying him. The "AI" was human after all: a manual photo-matching system dressed up as smart tech.
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