What is PimEyes?
PimEyes is a free facial recognition tool column that allows people to find images of themselves or others on the internet. However, you first need an image of the person first β which you can easily get through Facebook or Google Images. This feature has received criticism from security experts. PimEyes describes itself as a privacy tool to help prevent image abuse, to find which websites your images are being posted on.
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Poland-based website PimEyes was founded in 2017 and was commercialized last year. It currently has 6,000 registered users. However, up to now the website has officially operated for free. I tested a photo and it could accurately find the websites that posted that photo.
PimEyes's service is similar to Clearview AI. Of course, ClearviewAI is in trouble for user privacy, having amassed more than three billion photos from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, which the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and 600 other law enforcement agencies around the world have used. used by authorities to identify suspects. Few of us have seen it in action, as it is only available to organizations willing to pay for it
Last week, that changed. PimEyes, a new facial recognition search engine, now offers anyone with internet access a freely accessible demonstration. Upload a photo of someone, and it will show you all of that person's others in its database. Pay $10 and one can access links to the photo's pages. It's never been easier to find someone's photo.
According to the website of PimEyeimages uploaded to the site are βnever saved with user information.β Instead, it says it uses facial tracking β the main features β which are encrypted and temporarily saved on servers.
Amazon and IBM have stopped playing
Meanwhile, two companies working at the forefront of facial recognition β Amazon and IBM β have publicly stated their concerns about misuse of the technology. Amazon banned the use of its software by law enforcement for a year, while IBM has completely pulled out of the game.
At first glance, PimEyes seems harmless. Uploading a photo of yourself returns your other photos from its database. (Unlike Clearview, it doesn't display photos from major social networking sites, especially Facebook.) The results page looks like a Google image search for your own name. But importantly, even without a name, it still finds you with high accuracy.
How to use PimEyes
By Uploading an image of a person's face PimEyesyou will find many images of them from publicly accessible websites such as Tumblr, YouTube, WordPress blogs, and news sites. I tried adding an image of myself to it and it was scary how quickly it brought up other images that were identical and similar to the original.
Although the original image is only about 130Γ130, PimEyes uses it artificial intelligence Find Dan Truong's face very accurately. If you want to know which website posted the photos, you need to upgrade to Premium.
You might need to upload a photo of a movie star you like, or your ex, then find 10 girls who look like her and message them, says PimEyes co-founder Alexander Kabakov said.
PimEyes advertised the website as a solution for customers to know which websites their images are appearing on. These types of facial recognition search sites are not new. However, it depends on the purpose of use to evaluate whether this feature is good or bad.
