Hopefully I never have to use this for me but I am glad it exists
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
#22Hi, 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.
How did you arrive at the number of over 2.6 Billion victims of revenge porn? 33% of people seems like an incredible number.
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#23Hi, 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.
How did you arrive at the number of over 2.6 Billion victims of revenge porn? 33% of people seems like an incredible number.
Here's the quick read:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90467411/shocking-study-finds-1-...
Here's the real study: https://www.naag.org/attorney-general-journal/an-update-on-t...
Also, I don't think these numbers could be extrapolated to every country/region/culture on earth but they do seem to hold for european and english speaking markets.
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
How did you arrive at the number of over 2.6 Billion victims of revenge porn? 33% of people seems like an incredible number.
Here's the quick read: https://www.fastcompany.com/90467411/shocking-study-finds-1-... Here's the real study: https://www.naag.org/attorney-general-journal/an-update-on-t... Also, I don't think these numbers could be extrapolated to every country/region/culture on earth but they do seem to hold for european and english speaking markets.
So you work for this company and your opinion that it’s 33% of english-speaking and european people? Napkin math puts the number of victims at ~400 million (population of europe + north america/3), maybe double that if you charitably count all of Africa being “english speaking”.
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#25Hi, 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.
Separate question:
We’ve established that your website’s claim that there are 2.6 billion victims of revenge porn isn’t shared by people that work at Loti and it’s more likely ~400 million.
Given that fact, if you were able to get 1% of those people to subscribe (4 million) at $8/mo, you would be taking in $32,000,000 per month ($384,000,000 per year).
Would you not be the most profitable entity in the business of revenge porn?
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's the quick read: https://www.fastcompany.com/90467411/shocking-study-finds-1-... Here's the real study: https://www.naag.org/attorney-general-journal/an-update-on-t... Also, I don't think these numbers could be extrapolated to every country/region/culture on earth but they do seem to hold for european and english speaking markets.
So you work for this company and your opinion that it’s 33% of english-speaking and european people? Napkin math puts the number of victims at ~400 million (population of europe + north america/3), maybe double that if you charitably count all of Africa being “english speaking”.
Any issues you have, you should read the study listed above. Gather what you want from it, believe what makes sense to you. It doesn’t matter to our mission.
EDIT: regarding our marketing, I’ve cited our source.
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#27> Submit clear detailed pictures of your face in order to find porn of yourself. Do you think that is a good idea?
Would love clarity, what do you mean? That is the whole point of the service. If you don't submit a clear picture of yourself, there isn't any way for us to search.
I guess the concern is that you are going to link an anonymous pornographic video to a real identity you have confirmed with ID. Clearly a big security risk there that needs to be handled carefully.
For instance, if your alert email contains a link to the video, a bad actor who also had access to that email account now potentially had a blackmail opportunity.
I am sure you handle all this carefully but you have to admit it is fraught.
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you work for this company and your opinion that it’s 33% of english-speaking and european people? Napkin math puts the number of victims at ~400 million (population of europe + north america/3), maybe double that if you charitably count all of Africa being “english speaking”.
Any issues you have, you should read the study listed above. Gather what you want from it, believe what makes sense to you. It doesn’t matter to our mission. EDIT: regarding our marketing, I’ve cited our source.
Your website says “33% of people”
Do you think it’s useful to state that given your own admission that it’s likely much lower?
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#29> Submit clear detailed pictures of your face in order to find porn of yourself. Do you think that is a good idea?
Would love clarity, what do you mean? That is the whole point of the service. If you don't submit a clear picture of yourself, there isn't any way for us to search.
You are making a great database. Ripe for governments, spies, stalkers, and trolls. Being as paranoid as I am I wonder which I assume this falls into.
Re: Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you work for this company and your opinion that it’s 33% of english-speaking and european people? Napkin math puts the number of victims at ~400 million (population of europe + north america/3), maybe double that if you charitably count all of Africa being “english speaking”.
Any issues you have, you should read the study listed above. Gather what you want from it, believe what makes sense to you. It doesn’t matter to our mission. EDIT: regarding our marketing, I’ve cited our source.
I hope this service succeeds but that particular claim, especially in the light of the articles you shared, makes you seem untrustworthy.