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• Show HN: Bypassing face recognition using Fawkes – Now with web interface

  The original [Fawkes](https://github.com/Shawn-Shan/fawkes) project came on my radar when I have started working on adversarial examples in deep learning. Fawkes cloaks facial images by adding pixel-based perturbations to the original images, barely visible to the human eye. This bypasses face-recognition systems (or at least weakens their confidence). I highly recommend reading the original paper available from... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• How Much Do I Need to Change My Face to Avoid Facial Recognition?

  If what you’re trying to do is to publish prepared images of yourself, that won’t be facially recognized as you, then the answer is “not very much at all actually” — see https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Nightshade v1.0 Released

  Not sure if its coincidence but one of the professor's pictures appeared on the Fawkes page as a demo picture. https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Voice-changer apps designed to mitigate the threat of AI?

  There is a great tool called Fawkes that allows you to modify pictures of your face in a visually undetectable way, enough to thwart AI algorithms and mitigate the risk of your face being used for fraudulent purposes. Well, I'm looking for a tool of the same kind that does the same thing with your voice, in real-time, during calls, using a separate app from the one doing the calls. I know there are plenty of... Source: about 3 years ago

• Defeat Reverse Image

  Fawkes might be worth a look for you: http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/. Source: about 3 years ago

• BBC News: Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC

  Leaving a link to Sandlab's Fawkes tool for confusing facial recognition models. If you have any pics of yourself on the internet, chances are they either will scrape or already have scraped them. Feed pictures into this before you post them. Source: about 3 years ago

• F’ing SA and their lameass new vanilla-ness is making me post a face pic when I’ve been face in for years 🤮🤮🤮 Couldn’t hate them more right now!

  Use Fawkes to cloak your pictures before uploading them. This will prevent machine learning models from recognizing your face. Source: about 3 years ago

• Bypass Facial Recognition

  I guess you could subtly mess up your face a bit by editing the picture. Maybe check out Fawkes (https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/) which is a tool to poison the data and see if it suits your needs. Source: over 3 years ago

• Can I reuse pics from before the ban if i invert them so they’re flipped the opposite way?

  In fact I think they use phash in combination with other assessments to get you.. Such as phone number reuse, device ID reuse, potentially gps/wifi location in conjunction with other meta data (so they don’t ban/lower elo of another user in same area), potentially date of birth / name matches. I am not sure if they can get your card info and match based off that. i’m also not sure if they use facial recognition (i... Source: over 3 years ago

• from what i can tell this hasnt been posted here yet so here

  Remember remember the 5th of November and the excellent folks at U of C. Source: over 3 years ago

• What measures can I take to preserve as much of my privacy if I am creating an Instagram account?

  The Fawkes project provides a powerful new protection mechanism. Source: over 3 years ago

• The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter — @stevekrenzel

  From u/signal-insect's comment, it was probably Fawkes. Source: over 3 years ago

• Proton Drive picture upload - facial recognition "cloaking"

  It would be awesome if in the future, when we have desktop and mobile apps, there is a setting to automatically have uploaded pictures run through this: Fawkes. Source: over 3 years ago

• Is Deleting Facebook Account Worth it?

  I just removed all the photos and left it online with my name and one profile picture which I manipulated with this tool. The tool basically adds imperfections to your image to block image recognition. Source: over 3 years ago

• Such a concern...

  If you are concerned about feeding your face to facial recognition softwares, use fawkes on your pictures before uploading anywhere at all to mess it up. Source: over 3 years ago

• Private/Secure AND Professional Profile Picture?

  Use Fawkes to make facial recognition more difficult https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Private-Secure AND Professional Profile Pic?

  It's basically impossible for you to be fully professionaland private. However there are things you can do like using fawkes. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Oh lord, this is really not a god look for Google. Seems like a small milestone till they get their own bustards episode.

  Here's another reason to be concerned: Clearview AI has been and still is scraping pictures off the internet for FR purposes, completely unauthorized. Their intended end user is feds and police. Just leaving this here: http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Homeland security rule 😩

  And if you do wanna use your real photo you can use fawkes which edits the photo slightly to throw off facial recognition models so they can't recognize you. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Cloak your photos with this AI privacy tool to fool facial recognition

  According to the page for the Fawkes software, Microsoft is already trying to thwart it. Source: about 4 years ago

• A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate

  Researchers at the University of Chicago have released a tool called Fawkes to help cloak your photos from AI detection and tracking: you can download it for Windows, Mac, and Linux here. Source: about 4 years ago