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Use This Tool to Trick Services Like Clearview A.I.
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1 min readNov 25, 2020
If you were creeped out by the news of Clearview AI vacuuming more than 3 billion pictures off the internet to build a facial recognition database, then OneZero writer Thomas Smith has the tool for you.
A startup called Generated Media has released a tool called Anonymizer, which uses an A.I. system to analyze your face and synthesize a new portrait that’s mathematically similar. This doesn’t mean it actually looks like you, just that the algorithm thinks so.
It’s an interesting idea on the future of anonymity but contributes to my growing fear that nothing you see online is real.
