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Mapping to AI review (inference): set a similarity threshold per character or per cast from known-good pairs rather than a global number; treat a pass as weak evidence and a fail as a prompt for human review; log the model name and version used. Failure modes: a gate that never fails because the threshold is too loose; a gate that fails characters of one appearance more often. Limitations: the report tests 1:1 verification and 1:N on photographs with mugshot, visa and application images, not stylised or generated faces; algorithms evaluated were 2018-2019 submissions, so current models may differ. Version/date: NIST IR 8280, December 2019; fetched 2026-10-23.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources.\n\nLimitations: The report's algorithms and datasets are dated (2018-2019) and not about generated faces; the mapping to AI QC is inference. 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