A startup called PimEyes allows anyone to identify a stranger within seconds with just a photo of the person’s face. The technology has alarmed privacy advocates worldwide.
A startup called PimEyes allows anyone to identify a stranger within seconds with just a photo of the person’s face. The technology has alarmed privacy advocates worldwide.
Y’all are angling for a gold medal at the understatement olympics.
OH, COME ON
I love how they really have to dig to even come up with some legitimate ways to use the technology.
Like that wouldnt be more awkward.
“Oh hey! Long time no see… -points cellphone at person’s face- …Tom!”
I think this is tech wanting to put it in glasses.
“Oh hey! Long time no see… -puts on glasses- …Tom!”
YEEEAAAAAHHHHH!
My glasses prescription means that I’m putting my glasses on at the start of the day and not randomly taking them off. I think they’d want them used like that, not randomly putting them on like reading glasses. But that would be pretty funny.
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There is no “adequate safeguards” in such technology. If it’s out there somehow, it will get abused if there’s a reason for it. That’s like a universal law. A product with such potential to be abused, will be abused, no matter what smart super solution for protection someone might come up with.
Not to say it wouldn’t be a lifechanger for your gf or other people with a legitimate reason.
I said this elsewhere, but I’ll say it here too. Your girlfriend should not have to adapt to society to feel less socially awkward. The world needs to be more accepting of people with issues like that. It shouldn’t be socially awkward. It should be okay for her to just say “Hey, sorry, I don’t recognize faces without context. Where do I know you from?”
I had a friend years ago with aphasia and I would help them out when we’d meet by telling them what I’d be wearing and be on the look-out for them so I could walk up to them and they wouldn’t have to pick me out of a crowd. I’d also usually greet them with my name. They were really good at identifying voices usually, but the small effort was always appreciated, and it’s not that hard.
Their aphasia also extended beyond faces, so they would often have problems finding their car if they didn’t park in the same place, so they would take a picture of the car and some landmark near by. They would show me the pictures so I could help them find it.
What I’m saying is, is we as a society are going to be social to this great of a degree, where we interact with dozens of people, we need to learn to make it a place where everyone can also be involved as they are, not force them to conform to impossible standards for them.
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It would be less awkward to pull out a phone, take a picture of someone and pull up their info, adding their biometric data to some random company’s servers (possibly against their wishes) instead of just asking what their name is? Seems way less awkaward and more reasonable to just say she has facial ephasia than do all that.
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To protect us from scams they made it easier than ever to set up a scam!
Just plug your victims photo into this website and get every other photo they’ve ever posted!
Wait this is about Pimeyes? That’s used to figure out who you know has an OnlyFans account, right?
Close. It’s about Pimeyes which is used to figure out the name and location of the Onlyfans girl you have a weird parasocial crush on. What’s the worst that could happen?
(Technically, it only finds other photos on the internet of whatever random person you have a single photo of, which you can then often leverage into knowing their name and location.)
All this facial recognition stuff is going to do is normalize wearing masks and other head-coverings in public.