An example of the photos surfaced by PimEyes when a photo of author Bobby Allyn was uploaded to the site. Some of the photos are easily found from a Google search. But even the person depicted in the photo didn’t know some of these images existed online.
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An example of the photos surfaced by PimEyes when a photo of author Bobby Allyn was uploaded to the site. Some of the photos are easily found from a Google search. But even the person depicted in the photo didn’t know some of these images existed online.
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Imagine strolling down a busy city street and snapping a photo of a stranger then uploading it into a search engine that almost instantaneously helps you identify the person.
This isn’t a hypothetical. It’s possible now, thanks to a website called PimEyes, considered one of the most powerful publicly available facial recognition tools online.
On TikTok, PimEyes has become a formidable tool for internet sleuths trying to identify strangers, with videos notching many millions of views showing how a combination of PimEyes, and other search tools, can, for example, figure out the name of a random cameraman at a Taylor Swift concert. TikTok’s community guidelines ban content with personal information that could lead to stalking, identity theft and other crimes. But this particular video was still up on Wednesday morning.
Originally founded in 2017 by two computer programmers in Poland, it’s an AI tool that’s like…
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