It is not feasible, nor indeed ethical, to run a facial recognition system against all images on the internet.

Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

The LFR system not only identifies individuals based on their face biometrics, but is part of a platform that also connects them to their friends and family.