AI Anonymizer - Use virtual faces to secure your identity for free

@visualpharm What happens with the photos we upload? Feel like given the nature of the use case for this product that should be clearly covered.

@visualpharm this is not a gallery titled "Flattering Hairstyles for Thinning Hair". These are my generated other selves.

@visualpharm @mickc79 Great question! We don't store them. Here:

@julia_gnedina turns out less pretty than your real self, but safe😅

@julia_gnedina @jay_june mine are better looking 😬

@julia_gnedina @jay_june @visualpharm make it a feature:)

@julia_gnedina how YOU doin?

@julia_gnedina I think they missed the market demand for this product. Should be called AI wingman!

@temaprint hahaha how? post it here 🙏

@temaprint @visualpharm look at my strong pakistani bro

@novik_george interesting! Any particular use case?

@visualpharm It is quite possible to work under the cover of volunteers using social engineering against cyber scammers.

@visualpharm @novik_george oh, I see. Sure, that's a great reason. One of the police departments was evaluating if they can use the portraits of children to catch pedophiles. By law, they can't use the pictures of actual children for that.

@bogdan_ionita I choose one for you if you don't mind:

@visualpharm :)))) noice!

@visualpharm @ishanbansal right, they have a bit cheaper subscription with a lot more expensive pay as you go. Maybe we should learn a thing or two from them. Costs: 1. Photo team for training data — $25k/mo for the last 3.5 years. It's down since the beginning of the pandemic, we save a bit on the running costs but still pay the salaries. 2. Machine learning team — ugh :) It's constantly improving, classifying, improving, for 2 years. 3. Dedicated server for 4 Teslas — $38k after Nvidia's rebate (thank you, Nvidia startup program), Google Cloud and AWS at about $100k/year (thank you, Google and Amazon, for the credits). 4. After a certain point, storage becomes an issue, we're passing this moment. Of course taxes, administrative costs, marketing (how is the video above?), UX design, usability, support, etc. So, it is expensive. On the positive side, we release the spin-offs such as https://icons8.com/upscaler and sell our training data as a stock photography website https://icons8.com/photos

@ashe_hecarim 🖤

@nadavdakner it's no time to try: as easy as Cmd+V with any image. PS Share the result here!

@felix_hellstrom I remember the feeling! I've lost this faith years ago, when saw what people do with their photos for dating websites xD

@margarita_ivanchikova111 all you need is to send it to your plastic surgeon!

@markus_novikov "avoid face-recognition in hostile environment" is an accurate description for an affair.

@1emaxhotelmarketing yes. There is a number of human ways (centered eyes, asymmetric teeth, earrings or reflections in the eyes, etc.), and there are ML models that do that. You probably can't create a Facebook profile with a generated photo (I'm not sure though, needs checking).

@md5sha1 great analogy! What do you think of the lookalikes of your cartoonified profile pic?

@vcguidehq lol! Thx!

@jessehojjensen I know what you mean. Most women don't have beards, therefore we should serve that request with no-bird woman. Should we classify her as a "man", is that your suggestion?

@jessehojjensen @visualpharm I had to google no-bird woman to understand where this conversation was going, then I realized it was a typo. Ended up with a cool song btw: Um...no just a generated fail. Make beard a null value for women in the generator. I'm sure she will look great if she shaves... I recommend she lasers it off tho...Permanently. *Looks at the link again* I take it back. Shaving/Lasering won't save this image. The more I look at it, it reminds me of Jerry Seinfeld, but if you tell her a joke it goes over her head. Here is how the conversation goes: Her: "Hey eyes up here!" Me: "Um... yeah that's not what I was looking at." Her: "What's that suppose to mean?" Me: "There's a name for people without beards...Women." Her: "Why don't you say one nice thing about me instead?" Me: Well, your beard does make you look thinner. *She didn't cheer up after that.*

@myalanska 🖤

@kensavage Well, we already have the facial-recognition payments out there. So it's right about time to think about protecting people biometrics ;)