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Are fingerprints unique? Not really, AI-based study says (edition.cnn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Terrible title. It's implying the study is something about the accuracy of finger printing. It's a study where Ai was able to find some similarities in finger prints to different fingers in the same person, and sometimes could guess if they were different fingers from the same person, though not very consistently. I'm not making any judgements on the accuracy of forensic fingerprinting techniques here but that's not what this article or study is about.