Weirdest Shit Out of Silicon Valley

Artificial Intelligence Can Now Help You Find Your ‘Twin Stranger’

The fun side of facial recognition?

Zara Stone
The Bold Italic
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2 min readJan 4, 2021

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Weirdest Shit Out of Silicon Valley is a weekly series from The Bold Italic documenting the bizarre news, gadgets, and developments in the tech world.

I’m sure that at some point in your life, you’ve been asked/told what random celebrity you slightly resemble, and if the comparison was flattering, you’ll never forget it. One friend is forever owning his Bieber doppelgänger, even as he ages out.

I just watched the mini-documentary Finding My Twin Stranger by Channel 4, and dropped down a rabbit hole of identical-ish strangers. In the film, researchers collect a bunch of “twins” and analyze them using 3D scanning technology, 2D facial recognition analysis, DNA testing, and audience assessments. Two girls share a nose that’s 90%–95% identical (I didn’t want to rewatch it to confirm!) — “the same as identical twins,” the researcher tells them.

During the documentary, one website is constantly credited as helping people twin up: Twin Strangers.

Through this site, you can (for free) upload your picture, and their A.I. tool will match you against the millions of other submissions in their…

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Written by Zara Stone

Tech+Culture f/lance journo. www.zarastone.net Bylines: OneZero, Marker, Atlantic, Forbes, etc. Author: The Future of Science Is Female https://bit.ly/stm202

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