It's down now.
getting the old HN hug-of-death atm
AI Portraits
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Re: AI Portraits
#32Earlier 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.
> So it's 10 seconds for 200kb?
no, whole site took ~10 seconds to load with chromes Fast 3G throttled network preset.
Re: AI Portraits
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Depends on where you live. Where I live, I know for a fact they have less than 1TB of storage for 1000 cameras, and law enforcement usually fights the city to get images of incidents, because they don't live over a day due to storage shortage.
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#34So, 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?
> Didn’t the FaceApp incident _just_ happen?
There was no “incident”. Some people read the terms of service and raised a kerfuffle over it because the devs are based in Russia. So far we have no knowledge nor reasonable suspicions of anything nefarious on their part.
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#35So, 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?
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Re: AI Portraits
#36Attach this to one of these Chinese oil painting factories: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-village-60-wor...
Many of the Chinese factories are available to order from on https://www.Instapainting.com (I'm the founder).
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, but it's not like myriad cameras are recording their face and storing it for posterity whenever they leave the house! /s
Depends on where you live. Where I live, I know for a fact they have less than 1TB of storage for 1000 cameras, and law enforcement usually fights the city to get images of incidents, because they don't live over a day due to storage shortage.
Let me tell you a story from about 10 years ago. I was working for the DOJ and was invited to one of their secure datacenter (I was cleared). As we are walking through hallways, we sometimes had to cross through rooms of racks of servers to get to other server rooms. As we walked through past these racks of servers, I noticed they all said EMC on the cages. My coworker points out each room we walk through is housing storage and measuring a single server room alone, you'd find they were pushing a few petabytes. Just imagine what their storage solution looks like now. Thats just the DOJ.
Another story.. 15 years ago, not many people had a digital camera. Almost overnight, everyone and their mom had a digital camera. My dog has a camera.
If you think your image is not captured and stored somewhere for a near indefinite period of time, then you are just fooling yourself. 1984 came and went and we didn't even notice we're living a brave new world now
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#38So, 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 "Who" tells you it's MIT folk; the confirmation message tells you the image will be immediately deleted.
The information (if you trust it) is clearly there on the website.
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#39They are clearly having traffic issues at the mo, maybe HN and other related raised visibility.
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#40In case you want to sign-up and cannot get the client side validation to accept your password: they apply email validation to the passwords. You'll have to make up a password that's also a valid email address. In other words, something like: aBqwdHkjh@oqwIrd.com
Wow. Did they copy the same test for both fields twice too? Or more likely: do they have tests at all.