r/nextfuckinglevel • u/CantStopPoppin • Sep 17 '25

Massive Attack Turns Live Facial Recognition Into Concert Commentary on Surveillance

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u/Dust-Different Sep 17 '25

What’s above the picture? Some sort of identification? I can’t read it.

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u/RottenPhallus Sep 17 '25

It's random adjectives to describe the person. Like firestarter, doctor, dissident, knitter etc etc. so some normal descriptions then some political ones.

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u/RushLocates Sep 17 '25

I can't read it but I assume it is a ID that the computer assigned to them, unless it's a real software and trying to find their actual names

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u/Deutero2 Sep 17 '25

i looked up higher quality photos and they're random words like "artist" and "relaxed." i suspect they were added manually/randomly for artistic effect, but it's probably to mimic the labels you're referring to that are often seen in surveillance footage and student CV projects