AI Can Reconstruct Fingerprints From Photos Taken Feet Away

I'm wearing gloves for this one and I'm gonna need you to stay with me because AI can now steal fingerprints from a photo taken from five feet away, ten feet away, and it could still recover about half the print. This isn't theoretical. In China, a researcher did a live demonstration on TV and in 2025, criminals tried to use a photo that someone posted to get into the smart lock on their home. Now I know what you're thinking. How do I delete this app? I'm right there with you. But good news, this would have to be a highly targeted attack. So your brunch selfie, probably fine. Also the quality of the photo, the blur. lighting all of that's important but if you notice peace signs thumbs up and the little hearts going into retirement now you know why this is real here's the article people were actually able to do this the program they used showed fingerprint ridges becoming visible after the image was enhanced with photo editing software and artificial intelligence tools according to china newsweek a professor at the university said that portrait photos taken with high quality cameras could make it possible to reconstruct hand details from this peace sign post and take a look at this according to this news station someone posted a photograph online last july which had this finger pose criminals reportedly downloaded the image and used this fingerprint in an attempt to unlock the smart block on his home but the attempt was stopped in real time in another case covered by the news an employee used a company attendance system to collect a colleague's fingerprints and they make silicone fingerprint covers he then used these in burglary and stole $85 ,000 so this is possible you can get somebody's fingerprint do something like this and then enter their home or use them in a burglary so this is like some gone in 60 seconds type stuff it is very sketchy and there are a lot more sites saying that this is possible stealing people's biometric data via AI and then using them in burglary so this is pretty concerning