AI Anonymizer – use virtual faces to secure your identity
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AI Anonymizer – use virtual faces to secure your identity
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Re: AI Anonymizer – use virtual faces to secure your identity
#2Founder here. Thanks for featuring!
There was an improvised AMA in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25208704
I'd be glad to answer the questions here as well.
Re: AI Anonymizer – use virtual faces to secure your identity
#3Founder here. Thanks for featuring! There was an improvised AMA in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25208704 I'd be glad to answer the questions here as well.
Some of the questions:
How is it done? The images are pregenerated: 2.6M to be precise, all of them are here: https://generated.photos/faces
Technical challenges of better resemblance
We could either pre-generate (see the first comment - it’s an accurate guess), or generate just in time.
The first is way easier - same architecture, more storage (we are moving from instance’s storage to S3 so it will be an easy step).
On-demand generation would be much more expensive as you have to have a GPU server ready, and queue requests. We have it with https://icons8.com/upscaler ; it’s a bit of work and expense.
Additionally, you have to make it a paid service. Any ideas who could pay for that? Our usual customers are https://generated.photos/use-cases
Brad Pitt is not blonde
It definitely has some fitting issues; Brad Pitt is a good example as he dyes his hair. I've googled his hair situation so you don't have to. He most probably has gray hair, dyed dark, then highlighted.
That's a challenge huh! As a result, you can feel some of these guys manipulated hair color: https://i.imgur.com/bC6AxXO.jpg
Anyway, I had better luck with Angelina Jolie. Hairwise, her hair looks also toned, but our dataset has way more colored women: https://i.imgur.com/WmTzRAZ.jpg
Spam bots have a new face
On the boring side, it’s probably not worth it. Generated photography is detectable. A trained eye could spot it; big social media have models trained to a lot it.
Scraping a real life dataset makes more sense to me. Moreover, there are tons of ready ones.
Instead, here are are some of the other uses invented by our customers https://generated.photos/use-cases
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#4This is cool. I had been watching this guy on youtube who wears a mask in all his vids because he reports on cartels and wishes to not be murdered. It got me wondering if the new age Brian Krebs of YouTube would use something like this to maintain anonymity but still have a face the audience associates with them. The future is trippy.
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#5This is cool. I had been watching this guy on youtube who wears a mask in all his vids because he reports on cartels and wishes to not be murdered. It got me wondering if the new age Brian Krebs of YouTube would use something like this to maintain anonymity but still have a face the audience associates with them. The future is trippy.
Right! Or Google Maps — enough of people with the heads in a cloud.
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#6I just tried it, I don’t know what your AI thinks I look like, but it’s decided I’m a kid.. I’m in my mid-20s ;)
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#7I just tried it, I don’t know what your AI thinks I look like, but it’s decided I’m a kid.. I’m in my mid-20s ;)
In my mid-30s and the majority of faces I'm getting look like toddlers
Re: AI Anonymizer – use virtual faces to secure your identity
#8Founder here. Thanks for featuring! There was an improvised AMA in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25208704 I'd be glad to answer the questions here as well.
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#9I just tried it, I don’t know what your AI thinks I look like, but it’s decided I’m a kid.. I’m in my mid-20s ;)
In my mid-30s and the majority of faces I'm getting look like toddlers
I’d like to see the source photo if you don’t mind.
I’ve discovered that in any unclear situation it shows toddlers.
In particular, it happens when the camera distorts the perspective, such as too close or shot with an unusual angle. Precisely, selfies are often fish eyed.
I wonder if a plain, well lit portrait changes it. It must not be essentially a passport photo, but a passport photo would work too.
Of course, that is something to think about in the future releases. So sad, Anonymizer is an experiment made for fun. I wonder if it has a product/market fit. Thoughts?
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#10Very cool, however now I found out I am apparently someone who looks unusual compared to the average person.
In particular, I have naturally blond (very blond) hair, blue-green eyes, but a black beard.
This seems to confuse the AI. None of the pictures it generates look even remotely like me, and I even got a broken one (long-haired ones, where the hair fizzles out into AI artifacts).
Now, just to figure out how I can use my AI-breaking power face to mess with facial recognition technology? ;-)