How I Became the Face of Facial Recognition

Never underestimate the power of photographing technology

Thomas Smith
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Published in
6 min readFeb 5, 2021

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Much of the stock photography depicting the tech world is terrible, or at least highly inaccurate and staged. An infamous stock photo shoot from 2016, for example, shows models of various genders and racial backgrounds using a soldering iron to repair a circuit board.

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