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Re: AI Portraits

#21

Post by m4r » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 1:40 PM UTC

shusson wrote: post #20

m4r wrote: post #15

Open dev tools and select networking - this page performs so many concurrent requests to load images, it will never work on medicore connection using mobile device. It even fetches/tries to renders one that are 404.

It's not that bad. The images are ~20kb each and it fetches ~10 images on the landing page. If I throttle the network to Fast 3G in chrome, the whole site takes about 10 seconds to load.

So it's 10 seconds for 200kb? From my perspective its unacceptable, if your service is working with images, at least present them properly.

Also, it loads more than 10 when you start scrolling.

Re: AI Portraits

#22

Post by nmeofthestate » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 1:59 PM UTC

nkcmr wrote: post #17

So, I should upload a picture of my face to some random website/app to let it do something silly with my face and just let them have a picture of my face? Didn’t the FaceApp incident _just_ happen? What’s the privacy policy for this website?

Friendly warning: people can see your face when you leave the house.

Re: AI Portraits

#23

Post by luminati » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 2:18 PM UTC

nkcmr wrote: post #17

So, I should upload a picture of my face to some random website/app to let it do something silly with my face and just let them have a picture of my face? Didn’t the FaceApp incident _just_ happen? What’s the privacy policy for this website?

You can just try it with this: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com

Re: AI Portraits

#24

Post by giarc » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 2:19 PM UTC

adrianolek wrote: post #19

nkcmr wrote: post #17

So, I should upload a picture of my face to some random website/app to let it do something silly with my face and just let them have a picture of my face? Didn’t the FaceApp incident _just_ happen? What’s the privacy policy for this website?

The "how" link in the top-right corner says: Your photos are sent to our servers to generate portraits. We won’t use data from your photos for any other purpose and we'll immediately delete them. So basically you have to trust them.

But then the page has a ton of photos (presumably submitted by users) that I can download. So perhaps the original photo isn't used and deleted, but the generated photo belongs to them.

Re: AI Portraits

#25

Post by Crinus » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 2:20 PM UTC

nkcmr wrote: post #17

So, I should upload a picture of my face to some random website/app to let it do something silly with my face and just let them have a picture of my face? Didn’t the FaceApp incident _just_ happen? What’s the privacy policy for this website?

What FaceApp incident?

Re: AI Portraits

#26

Post by stronglikedan » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 2:26 PM UTC

nmeofthestate wrote: post #22

nkcmr wrote: post #17

So, I should upload a picture of my face to some random website/app to let it do something silly with my face and just let them have a picture of my face? Didn’t the FaceApp incident _just_ happen? What’s the privacy policy for this website?

Friendly warning: people can see your face when you leave the house.

Yeah, but it's not like myriad cameras are recording their face and storing it for posterity whenever they leave the house! /s

Re: AI Portraits

#27

Post by ilikehurdles » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 2:28 PM UTC

nkcmr wrote: post #17

So, I should upload a picture of my face to some random website/app to let it do something silly with my face and just let them have a picture of my face? Didn’t the FaceApp incident _just_ happen? What’s the privacy policy for this website?

I just uploaded a picture of nicolas cage.

Re: AI Portraits

#28

Post by dspillett » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 2:39 PM UTC

Crinus wrote: post #25

nkcmr wrote: post #17

So, I should upload a picture of my face to some random website/app to let it do something silly with my face and just let them have a picture of my face? Didn’t the FaceApp incident _just_ happen? What’s the privacy policy for this website?

What FaceApp incident?

There wasn't really an "incident".

Someone bothered to read the terms of service and noticed that they stated that you grant the app, the app's creator, and anyone else the app's creators chose, can do what-ever they like, when-ever they like, as often as they like, for as long as they like, with your photos and any other data they scrape from you as you use the app. This cause a bit of a stir, despite being pretty much what any similar ToS says.

And apparently the app creators are based in Russia which cased further concern to some.

Re: AI Portraits

#29

Post by leanthonyrn » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 2:53 PM UTC

JavaScript version?

Re: AI Portraits

#30

Post by dymk » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 2:57 PM UTC

m4r wrote: post #21

shusson wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not that bad. The images are ~20kb each and it fetches ~10 images on the landing page. If I throttle the network to Fast 3G in chrome, the whole site takes about 10 seconds to load.

So it's 10 seconds for 200kb? From my perspective its unacceptable, if your service is working with images, at least present them properly. Also, it loads more than 10 when you start scrolling.

Why does every thread have to have the same pithy, cheap, criticizing comment about page load speed?

It’s demoing a GAN, not a shiny “blazing fast” web framework. They whipped this web frontend up in a day probably. It’s not supposed to be optimized for your 3G phone.