With the development of facial recognition technologies over the past few years, privacy is gradually becoming a myth for the general public. Facial recognition tools like the “Clearview AI” simply kills the concept of privacy as it can recognize anyone from its database of 3 billion pictures. So, to protect users from these kinds of facial recognition tools, scientists have developed a tool that can make minimal changes to your face in your pictures to trick most of the facial recognition tools out there in the market.
Now, scientifically speaking, the process that this tool follows is termed as “cloaking”, as it intends to alter the sources that aid the facial recognition tools. So, the tool essentially uses AI to make subtle changes to the faces and these changes remain hidden from human eyes. However, if any facial recognition tool tries to analyze the picture, it won’t be able to do match it with any picture from its database.
The Difference is Undetectable
So, I downloaded the tool which came for around 125MB for my Windows PC. After downloading, I ran the tool on one of my pictures to “cloak” it and the result is right below.
