Yes, that is a real product.
Posted on 05/09/2021 10:09:20 PM PDT by algore
You probably haven't seen PimEyes, a mysterious facial-recognition search engine, but it may have spotted you.
If you upload a picture of your face to PimEyes' website, it will immediately show you any pictures of yourself that the company has found around the internet.
You might recognize all of them, or be surprised (or, perhaps, even horrified) by some; these images may include anything from wedding or vacation snapshots to pornographic images.
PimEyes' decision to make facial-recognition software available to the general public crosses a line that technology companies are typically unwilling to traverse, and opens up endless possibilities for how it can be used and abused.
Imagine a potential employer digging into your past, an abusive ex tracking you, or a random stranger snapping a photo of you in public and then finding you online.
This is all possible through PimEyes: Though the website instructs users to search for themselves, it doesn't stop them from uploading photos of anyone.
At the same time, it doesn't explicitly identify anyone by name, but as CNN Business discovered by using the site, that information may be just clicks away from images PimEyes pulls up.
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this could be a good thing.
universal outrage can change the future.
sometimes
You realize that this is what BLM and AntiFa are using to target people who disagree with them, right?
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“Imagine a potential employer digging into your past, an abusive ex tracking you, or a random stranger snapping a photo of you in public and then finding you online.”
Imagine a CNN employee digging into your past because they saw a photo of you at a conservative political rally, or saw a photo of you wearing an American flag t-shirt, or saw a photo of you getting out of a car with a bumper sticker critical of Biden, or...etc, etc.
I did not know that, but I should have.
And glad I do now.
No good can come from making this device or this system available to the public. Some people have very good reasons for not wanting to be immediately known and easily located.
This is bad.
I got nine results of a guy in Russia.
Pssst: This isn’t the only one available to the public. There are also pay services - and there is a good reason to have this, employment verification. Phony IDs are getting really good now.
It isn’t the only one, either.
I’ve been trying to tell people here about this tech since other people were noticing that AntiFa was deploying camera teams and multiple recording devices - and then harassing people that stood up to them. But noooooo, they were shouting about hickory showers and how they just had to hit them with one punch and they’d all run away and there would be no consequences.
Wear a mask. For reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with COVID.
Another reason to wear cheap sunglasses.
I see it as revealing. Lets have a license plate scan site where one can see how many times their license plate was photographed.
“Another reason to wear cheap sunglasses.”
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BIG cheap sunglasses.
IF they gained weight, would that be trans fat?
The lower part of the face is more easily identified by computers than the upper. Sunglasses are no more an impediment to a modern facial recognition system than a single square of commercial toilet paper will successfully resist heavy machine gun fire.
Yes, that is a real product.
I did a search with a recent self portrait and it found some really good looking guys, but not me :√}
This is why we should wear masks from now on. Full head covering ski masks.
90% of mine said “potentially explicit”.
:D
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