For the women, the incorrect photos often came from pornography sites, which was unsettling in the suggestion that it could be them. Most of the matches for the dozen journalists' faces were correct. The sometimes surprising images that PimEyes surfaced came instead from news articles, wedding photography pages, review sites, blogs and pornography sites. Unlike Clearview AI, a similar facial recognition tool available only to law enforcement, PimEyes does not include results from social media sites. A journalist's past life in a rock band was unearthed, as was another's preferred summer camp getaway. A foreign correspondent appeared in countless wedding photos, evidently the life of every party, and in the blurry background of a photo taken of someone else at a Greek airport in 2019. A tech reporter's younger self was spotted in an awkward crush of fans at the Coachella music festival in 2011. PimEyes found one reporter dancing at an art museum event a decade ago, and crying after being proposed to, a photo that she didn't particularly like but that the photographer had decided to use to advertise his business on Yelp. PimEyes found photos of every person, some that the journalists had never seen before, even when they were wearing sunglasses or a mask, or their face was turned away from the camera, in the image used to conduct the search.
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The New York Times used PimEyes on the faces of a dozen Times journalists, with their consent, to test its powers. You upload a photo of a face, check a box agreeing to the terms of service and then get a grid of photos of faces deemed similar, with links to where they appear on the internet. For $29.99 a month, a website called PimEyes offers a potentially dangerous superpower from the world of science fiction: the ability to search for a face, finding obscure photos that would otherwise have been as safe as the proverbial needle in the vast digital haystack of the internet.Ī search takes mere seconds.