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Re: AI Anonymizer – use virtual faces to secure your identity

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Post by johnisgood » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 11:09 AM UTC

> Upload your photo and discover look-a-like generated photos.

No thank you. I would rather use https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ instead. I do not want to expose myself to protect myself. Please think about it, it is absurd. You do not protect your privacy by first giving up privacy by trusting total strangers with your photo. Probably could use https://generated.photos/faces as well.

Such an anonymizer. You probably use your IP, you upload a photo of yourself to someone's server, and God knows what happens to all this. Just to... anonymize yourself. First step to anonymize yourself: do not upload a photo of yourself to random websites.

Re: AI Anonymizer – use virtual faces to secure your identity

#12

Post by sinuhe69 » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 3:29 PM UTC

Isn’t that not kind of scam? It said you can use it for free and then charge 2$ for each photo when you want to download them all while using your photos as free data to train and enhance the network itself.

Re: AI Anonymizer – use virtual faces to secure your identity

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Post by m34 » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 8:38 PM UTC

johnisgood wrote: post #11

> Upload your photo and discover look-a-like generated photos. No thank you. I would rather use https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ instead. I do not want to expose myself to protect myself. Please think about it, it is absurd. You do not protect your privacy by first giving up privacy by trusting total strangers with your photo. Probably could use https://generated.photos/faces as well. Such an anonymizer. You proba…

Agreed. Anectodal ofc: I thought about creating something similar - an app that would take my headshot and randomly alter metrics like eye distance and other general ratios etc for use as profile images for various social networks, thinking it might improve recognizability for people I actually know / have met.

However, I quickly came to the realization that the metrics I'd try to alter would probably not be sufficient and reveal enough information that the whole thing would be rendered moot.

A nice first step to remediate trust (or at least shift trust relationship to other parties) would be for vendors to implement highly restricted sandbox models (i.e. not allowing _any_ network access and restrict/alter ways of in- and output, like adding noise and artefacts to image data that can leave the app e.g. via share/save to camera roll).

Re: AI Anonymizer – use virtual faces to secure your identity

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Post by Icons8 » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 9:20 PM UTC

sinuhe69 wrote: post #12

Isn’t that not kind of scam? It said you can use it for free and then charge 2$ for each photo when you want to download them all while using your photos as free data to train and enhance the network itself.

It's not.

You can use it for free, just attribute it.

$2.99 gives you a double resolution.

We don't use these photos to train.

Re: AI Anonymizer – use virtual faces to secure your identity

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Post by Icons8 » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 11:13 PM UTC

m34 wrote: post #13

johnisgood wrote: post #11

> Upload your photo and discover look-a-like generated photos. No thank you. I would rather use https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ instead. I do not want to expose myself to protect myself. Please think about it, it is absurd. You do not protect your privacy by first giving up privacy by trusting total strangers with your photo. Probably could use https://generated.photos/faces as well. Such an anonymizer. You proba…

Agreed. Anectodal ofc: I thought about creating something similar - an app that would take my headshot and randomly alter metrics like eye distance and other general ratios etc for use as profile images for various social networks, thinking it might improve recognizability for people I actually know / have met. However, I quickly came to the realization that the metrics I'd try to alter would probably not be sufficie…

I see your concern and it’s valid. We don’t store anything, but you probably need more warranties than that.

I don’t think it’s the best way to hide. Generated photos are detectable after all, and using a generated photo raises a flag.

But I say it’s good enough for most cases of everyday life:

* Uber drivers chasing attractive customers online

* Jealous ex

* Airbnb and coach surfing

* Classifieds encounters to sell a bike, etc.