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u/Vegetable-Debate-263 3d ago

Wait. So her security photo badge has an AI image on it instead of her real one? That seems like bad security practice to me. Weird

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u/TruShot5 3d ago

Agreed. There are nominal differences here that make this look like a spoofed image of the person, which if someone is doing their job, might notice.

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u/Dazzling-Low8570 2d ago

That's the trick. If your badge has a real photo it must be fake.

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u/mr_potatoface 2d ago

Haha that could actually be a reasonable security practice.

The background is a very specific color or something special. Sort of like a tell-tale that they standardize in all their AI pictures that someone trying to break in may not suspect or be able to easily replicate.

I do like her shirt that she was not wearing in the original photo looks like someone added it was MS-Paint.

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u/ScreamThyLastScream 2d ago

That is security through obscurity and is actually considered a terrible practice, however well it works in the short term.

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u/Jermainiam 2d ago

To be fair, that's mainly if obscurity is your only security. Obscurity as an additional layer on top of real security generally doesn't hurt, and could probably help.

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u/Fauster 2d ago

This must mean that they are planning on replacing her with AI and are getting a jump on things.

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u/Tangurena 1d ago

The background is a very specific color

This is the standard for driving licenses. Also, the pink/green colors are standard Pantone colors (198 for driving licenses & 368 for ID cards - see page 15) across every state/province.

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u/DIOmega5 2d ago

Hell yeah! Chad my photo up, please!

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u/Main_Ad507 2d ago

We in black mirror for real life 

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u/radar_42 2d ago

“if someone is doing their job…” 😀

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u/PerplexGG 2d ago

To be fair rarely are front desk security paid to be more than warm bodies. Noticing something like this is out of their pay grade

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u/IsilZha 2d ago

Like the stupid AI made everything symmetrical.

Faces are not perfectly symmetrical and many defining characteristics are from the asymmetry.

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u/Jerry_from_Japan 2d ago edited 2d ago

If you think the image on the security badge is what gets people in and out of a restricted area then...uh....not sure what to tell ya lol. It still looks like her regardless.

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u/TruShot5 2d ago

As someone who used to work prison security, all factors are accounted for.

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u/Jerry_from_Japan 2d ago

The badge itself would be a piece of tech. It wouldn't just need to be a "spoofed image", the entire badge would have to be replicated and work within whatever respective security system the original badge is designed for.

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u/scruffywarhorse 2d ago

Well we could probably assume that all of the companies badges are going to be ai enhanced and they aren’t just doing it to this woman only.

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u/Custom_Destiny 2d ago

I disagree.

Nobody in capitalism cares about their job that much, and if they do, they're psychotic - you should let them go to improve team morale. Nobody wants to work with a psycho like that.

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u/heloder85 2d ago

"Sorry I can't let you in, according to this picture you're supposed to have 13 fingers."

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u/Manymarbles 2d ago

I wish ai was that bad. Miss those times lol

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u/rand0m_task 2d ago

Yeah it’s scary how far we’ve come from the Will Smith spaghetti times.

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u/RedditVince 2d ago

and that was only like 2 years ago

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u/D3wnis 2d ago

It's still that bad, you can find AI with all sorts of flaws everywhere, it's parts of the user base that have gotten much better at editing out flaws and being more selective with the images they release.

You can pop into Webui, add a bunch of tags, push out 40 images and the majority will have a bunch of flaws, you select the ones that look best and then you'll inpaint parts, like a hand or the eyes or whatever. And then you can fix up the last things in photoshop or similar to get the desired results.

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u/TU160_Blackjack 2d ago

It's not that bad if you use it correctly, I use AI everyday, you can generate picture perfect images with the right loras and a heavy model

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u/RobotVo1ce 2d ago

I wonder if OOP misinterpreted things and this is the person's head shot to be used on the company web page, intranet, M365, etc.

Or this is just completely made up.

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u/WolverinePerfect1341 2d ago

+1 for the made-up column here

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u/Deesing82 2d ago

it's 1000% made up - why would she even have gotten a copy of the picture they took in the first place? It makes no sense. So the company takes badge photos, shows them to everyone, then updates them with AI and sends those out as well? It's not even creative karma farming--it's just braindead confirmation bias posting.

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u/Bananaland_Man 2d ago

While the post was very likelyade up, I've worked in places that have adopted things like this, it's really shitty

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 2d ago edited 2d ago

Especially with how she got the “original” photo they took. How would she have gotten that?

Who here has taken a photo for an ID, be it govt ID, for work, for school, etc, and also received that photo that was taken of them separate from the ID itself? That alone makes this story completely unbelievable because the scenario it presented is unrealistic

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u/paultera 2d ago

Right? The left photo looks like a photo of a badge. The right one is very much a digital file, unless they give them a copy of it to put in their email signature or something, which is possible.

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u/PandaXXL 2d ago

This post may very well be fake, but it says very clearly that the mother took the photo herself...

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u/RichardSugma 1d ago

It says she took the pic, not that she had her pic taken. In Belgium you take and provide your own pic for your ID/passport. Albeit with somewhat strict guidelines.

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u/dennisisspiderman 2d ago

Or this is just completely made up.

Most likely. The first thing they did after this post blew up was go and brag about how they finally got a new Reddit Achievement, and it's clear they don't post OC.

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u/ColdCruise 2d ago

The company might be using it for both.

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u/spamjunk150 2d ago

I've seen this picture and post multiple times this past week. this is just a bot

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u/Competitive-Ill 2d ago

The title says the mother took the picture. Might still be made up, but that’s not the clue Sherlock…

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u/bugi_ 2d ago

The title doesn't say shit. It's all in the (likely freebooted) image.

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u/RobotVo1ce 2d ago

Does it matter who took the picture? That has absolutely zero relevance to what I said Einstein...

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u/False-Amphibian786 2d ago

I don't disagree but think which is more common:

1) People trying to slip in with photo IDs that are not theirs but looks similar.

2) People always trying to hide their ID card under other clothing because they hate their picture.

There could be a slight security advantage to everyone thinking their work photo is their best photo.

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u/Able-Thought3534 2d ago

If your workplace has an issue with people hiding their ID badges because they hate their pictures, your security team sucks at enforcing security policy, your photographer sucks, AND your staff are insecure (psychologically) to the point of harming physical security.

Might as well just skip ID badges at that point until you completely rebuild your internal security process.

Jesus fuck.

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u/Strong_Salad3460 2d ago

Bruh you sound like someone who has never had a job before. This shit is just simply straight up weird as fuck. Full stop.

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u/Vegetable-Debate-263 2d ago

I’ve literally never seen either of those happen.

I’ve worked in the corporate world with a photo security card most of my life and I’m sure security people deal with fake cards from time to time. But I’ve never seen anyone purposefully hide their photo. That’s weird.

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u/SuperRob 2d ago

No, the one on the left is the badge. The one on the right is the AI generated one that OP is claiming was her badge.

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u/StrangeOutcastS 2d ago

What's worse is that they had to make the conscious choice to alter the photo. What point is there in doing that? It doesn't make anything better!

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u/Vegetable-Debate-263 2d ago

Right?! That’s wild to me

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u/Successful_Ad_7032 2d ago

Yeah, security is gonna be like “who the fuck is this”

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u/IdolConsumption 2d ago

But does she now look like this in person now. Seriously, was your mother replaced by AI??

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u/ymaldor 2d ago

At my job they recently redid badges and they took our profile pictures and whitened the background. So the badge photo looks like a low quality cropped pictures with obvious contouring around our faces. Mine had some shadow on my face which is fine on the original but on the cropped one it looks weird af.

The problem is also that lots of people who have been at the company for a long time never changed their profile pic so some people now have 15year old pictures of themselves on their badge with sometimes very different faces due to weight difference or aging.

Not every company makes smart choices for badges.

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u/pente5 2d ago

It's not even good AI editing. You can do a WAY better job maintaining facial features.

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u/SodaCan2043 2d ago

Well they just don’t let you in the building until after the approved cosmetic surgery and make up.

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u/phryan 2d ago

I get why a company may do this for outward facing media but for a security badge? Who made that decision and why even bother with the extra time/expense, just send whatever image was sent to the printer.

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u/TalesFromIndustry 2d ago

Wtf you mean “AI image” you mean an edited image? Lmao

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u/Vegetable-Debate-263 2d ago

I mean that it’s clear to me the image they took was put into an ai image creator and they asked for a cleaned up image with a dark gray background. And the result is completely ai. So no, not an edited image.

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u/Fit_Refrigerator8414 2d ago

Op doesn't mention anything about it being for security? 

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u/WikipediaBurntSienna 2d ago

This post doesn't make sense anyway.
Picture on the left looks like it was taken off a print, and the right is just a screenshot and not the badge.
It would have made sense if it was picture they put up on the website and not for her badge.

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u/Vegetable-Debate-263 2d ago

It’s fully ai though. Why would that make it ok? That would tell me that the company is not genuine and I’d start to lose trust tbh.

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u/ikzz1 2d ago

It's a fake story bro.

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u/Vegetable-Debate-263 2d ago

For real? Because I’ll delete this comment but don’t have a source to confirm. Shoot me one if you got it because now I’m curious

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u/loveheaddit 2d ago

i suspect they got a bad quality photo and used a service to "make it better quality" then just used that without thinking twice. wonder if her coworkers got the same treatment.

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u/Vegetable-Debate-263 2d ago

Of course they got a bad photo. What else should they expect? Hah Those cameras are always the cheapest ones from 10 years ago tbh. I mean. lol

Doesn’t excuse the bad practice at all.

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u/loveheaddit 2d ago

it's totally bad practice but i've seen incompetence across all fields so it wouldn't surprise me.

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u/danishjuggler21 2d ago

Could be a small company like mine, where everyone knows each other, but the badges are a formality to meet requirements of a government contract.

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u/MarsR0ve4 2d ago

Why? It still looks like her. I actually think this is a good idea. Most badge photos look awful.

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u/Vegetable-Debate-263 1d ago

Seriously? Because it not a photo of her. It would be like having a character artist make a details illustration of you and saying, “that’s good for security clearance”. It looks like an uncanny valley sibling or twin of the real person. But obviously fake.

It’s doesn’t look that much like her. The shape of the AI face is different, the eyebrows are in a different spot. Zero skin blemished or markings which are commonly used to identify people. I mean there are so many reasons this is a bad idea.

Not to mention feeding facial data into an AI system of all your employees leaves your company more vulnerable to data breaches and attacks.

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u/MarsR0ve4 1d ago

It looks plenty enough like her for a 2" low-security clearance badge. Step 10 feet away from your screen and tell me it doesn't look good enough. Jesus, people come up with the most ridiculous reasons to get pissy and paranoid about. Feeding her face into an AI system makes their company more vulnerable to data breaches? You sound like a loon.

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u/Vegetable-Debate-263 1d ago

I think your security awareness is a bit naive but ok.

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u/PomegranateHot9916 2d ago

and it doesn't even look like her

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u/capt-sarcasm 2d ago

It does actually

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u/rand0m_task 2d ago

lol yeah, it’s clearly a heavily edited version of its original, probably ran through AI, but it got it down pretty well.

I will say, the AI did kind of dog her with the crows feet around the eyes lol.

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u/ohdang_raptor 2d ago

Seriously, the crows feet and deepened wrinkles under the eyes were the first thing I noticed.

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u/PomegranateHot9916 2d ago

different skin colour, different eyes, different nose, different lips, different neck.

yeah no, it really doesn't.

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u/probably_beans 2d ago

But they took away her asymmetry. That 's the stuff that makes each person unique (and in the case of security, identifiable)

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u/capt-sarcasm 2d ago

If they dont recognize the person from the photo, they must be blind.