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AI Anonymizer — Use virtual faces to secure your identity for free
Protect your identity by using a synthetic profile picture that reminds people of you! Simply upload a photo of yourself and we will return the generated photo that shares your features.
- Stay safe online
- Give people an idea of your appearance without risk
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Ishan Bansal
This is very interesting. I think instead of using it for generating my own fake profiles, I would be more inclined towards using it to generate models similar to what we want (we get a lot of requests to use Indian models, but stock photo sites have limited content of those). However, the pricing seems a bit steep for generated photos; it's actually more expensive than real photos from website like DepositPhotos :) I would expect AI / fake photos to be much cheaper than the real ones :) @visualpharm : would love to know if there is a specific cost aspect in generating this type of content.
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@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
Over the last year we have noticed an interesting trend, people are frequently using our generated faces to stay anonymous online. Journalists, law enforcement, and governments have all let us know they have used our images to stay safe while conducting sensitive operations.
We wanted to expand this capability to everyone. Today we are launching the Anonymizer, a free web tool where in 1-click you can get a synthetic portrait image that looks similar to you. Simply upload a photo of your face and get back a set of portrait photos that match your physical characteristics. This makes it easy to accurately represent yourself online, while still remaining 100% anonymous.
Use your new face as your profile picture anywhere you want to stay safer online. Free for personal usage and inexpensive for companies too.
@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.
I appreciate the technology here but why would anyone want to generate an image and use it with their name associated with it 🙄
@kensavage Well, we already have the facial-recognition payments out there. So it's right about time to think about protecting people biometrics ;)
I use Google voice for general use to protect personal cell number, this is a nice feature now to anonymize profile pics; currently using cartoonfied profile pic)
@md5sha1 great analogy! What do you think of the lookalikes of your cartoonified profile pic?
@nadavdakner it's no time to try: as easy as Cmd+V with any image.
PS Share the result here!
With advancements in facial recognition systems like Clearview AI it makes sense to be selective on where you share your biometric data online. Anonymity is a common use case for our customers as permissible photos showing full faces are quite rare, especially without likeness rights. We are happy to fill that niche! While we enjoyed being mentioned in the New York Times article this weekend, we would love to start changing the narrative on synthetic media from fear to utility.
_Bonus:_ this tool doubles as a super fast way to find exactly what you need on the Generated Photos platform by uploading an example photo.
Looks like from now with your tool people can have separate pictures for all the set of their inner selves. Well, out of jokes, that's really exciting to see how far you have been going with the quality of generated photos since the first release, great job!
I found a woman with a small beard.
https://generated.photos/face/jo...
When checking the box "woman" I don't expect to find some with beards.
@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.*
Nice work, Ivan! I had fun seeing myself as an old semi-bald college professor :)
Sometimes my photos turn out to be bad.
Here's the solution upload to your site, download the closest one.
Boom!!
Okay so from now one I can't even trust peoples profile pictures. Haha This is great. I have to try this.
@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