Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
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Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#2Hi I'm Luke, co-founder.
People are warned that an image lives on the internet forever, this has been especially true for images that are not consensually taken or shared. We’re fixing that.
We created Loti (https://goloti.com), a service that uses facial recognition to help users search, find, and reclaim non-consensual intimate images and videos using a streamlined DMCA process we facilitate in our software.
Over 10 million people are victims of non-consensual image sharing in the United States alone. Those are just the people that were even aware that their images were being shared; research shows that up to 30% of victims were hacked or victims of hidden cameras and are unaware.
Our goal is to bring peace of mind that your private images stay private.
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#3Hi, I am Hirak. I am a co-founder of Loti.
Loti uses state of the art facial recognition algorithm built with proprietary models. It takes into consideration a dozen facial characteristics in more than 1 angles to find matches from a collection of more than 50 million data sets. We keep adding millions of new data every month to make sure we don't miss out any privacy breach of your photo.
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#4> Submit clear detailed pictures of your face in order to find porn of yourself.
Do you think that is a good idea?
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#5I feel like this can be easily misused
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#6I feel like this can be easily misused
I'm not sure what (1) alert per month means, but I definitely think that $8/mo to find porn with your preferred facial characteristics based on some uploaded images seems like a more viable business model. I'm certain there are people who would pay to have a digest of pron with lookalikes of their favorite actresses/whatever mailed to them regularly.
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#7How do you confirm the identity of your customer to ensure your DMCA takedown notices are legitimate?
How do you programmatically discern between non-consensual adult images being shared against the subject's wishes versus images where they are somewhere public, don't own the copyright to the photo, but the law does not require the copyright holder remove or take down the image?
Cool idea, might need to pivot, regardless an interesting space to be in in these times.
EDIT: Appreciate the replies!
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#8I bet y'all would make a lot more money charging $8/mo to find porn with the exact facial characteristic someone is looking for.
Don't get me wrong, revenge porn is bad, but charging people money to take it down seems, well I guess better than nothing but let's hope a nonprofit starts maintaining a database like this and completely eliminates any market this site may capture.
Also abusing the DMCA for censorship, even in pursuit of a noble cause is harmful to society, though maybe not more harmful than revenge porn?
I'm really curious how our culture will continue to reckon with the ideas that
a) There are intimate images extant of many people. Many will become most.
b) AI powered face swapping and image generation will make arbitrary porn trivial on home-gamer GPUs in a few years.
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#9I bet y'all would make a lot more money charging $8/mo to find porn with the exact facial characteristic someone is looking for. Don't get me wrong, revenge porn is bad, but charging people money to take it down seems, well I guess better than nothing but let's hope a nonprofit starts maintaining a database like this and completely eliminates any market this site may capture. Also abusing the DMCA for censorship, eve…
The idea of charging $8/mo for someone to look at anyone's photos online is pretty far off brand for us. We're really looking to help people find just their own photos. I do agree the market would be larger but that's not something we're interested in doing. That breaks ethical barriers for us.
We have to charge money to cover our expenses, most people don't realize how expensive GPU's are and that's the only way to do this cost effectively at scale. Even a non-profit would incur enormous expenses because there is just no way to do this cheap.
There is no abuse of the DMCA process here. Customers are asked to sign an affidavit and we don't allow them to DMCA outside of their facial profiles.
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#10I think this idea has potential, but HN might be far off from your target audience.