Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #facerec
Most recents (1)
(Thread) A couple of weeks ago, the #clearviewai reporting by @kashhill shook the world. Now we show how easy it is to download bulk-scale data from Instagram – and how advanced open source #facerec technology already is
@kashhill We downloaded 200k Instagram pictures within a couple of days, from one computer, without an account. We then searched these pictures for candidates for the Swiss federal elections and found a couple of interesting "matches".
@kashhill We used the open source Dlib library for facial recognition (github.com/ageitgey/face_…). It was able to recognizes faces that are partially hidden, in the dark, etc. I would argue the AI behind it is not very different from the one that big players like Amazon use.
