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ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Public databases have photos of people’s faces? Or do they mean public if you pay for access? I didn’t think those had photos either but I’ve never paid for access so I don’t know.

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jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
No, but meta does. Facial recognition will bring up their fb/Instagram.

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- ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I have not come across facial recognition software that contains Facebook pictures in its database. I don’t mean to be creepy, but I’m curious about what software you’re referring to.
  
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  - jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Whatever software they are talking about in the article, they don’t mention a name.
    
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    testfactor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    They did mention a name. Publicly available database called PimEyes apparently.
    
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    ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    That and the following makes me suspect that this is a faked publicity stunt rather than a real prototype.
    
    “The purpose of building this tool is not for misuse, and we are not releasing it,” Nguyen and Ardafiyo write in a document explaining the project. Instead, the students say their goal is to raise awareness that all this isn’t some dystopian future — it’s all possible now with existing technology.
    
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testfactor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It’s in the article. Public database called PimEyes.

It doesn’t go into much more detail than that. Says it’s an open to the public face searching database.

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- ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  PimEyes doesn’t search Facebook. You can try it for yourself. It will find faces for you for free, but you have to pay to find out where it found them.
  
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  - testfactor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Fair. I presume that they meant publicly available in the sense that it was accessible to the public, not in the sense that it was necessarily free.
    
    The article says they are using PimEyes, which I assume means that they’re paying for a subscription.
    
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