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Someone is making dubious claims to have built a program for detecting faces in porn and cross-referencing against social media, with 100,000 identified so far.
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Someone posting on Chinese social network Weibo claims to have used facial recognition to cross-reference women’s photos on social media with faces pulled from videos on adult platforms like Pornhub.
In a Monday post on Weibo, the user, who says he's based in Germany, claimed to have “successfully identified more than 100,000 young ladies” in the adult industry “on a global scale.”
To be clear, the user has posted no proof that he’s actually been able to do this, and hasn’t published any code, databases, or anything else besides an empty GitLab page to verify this is real. When Motherboard contacted the user over Weibo chat, he said they will release “database schema” and “technical details” next week, and did not comment further.
Still, his post has gone viral in both China on Weibo and in the United States on Twitter after a Stanford political science PhD candidate tweeted them with translations, which Motherboard independently verified. This has led prominent activists and academics to discuss the potential implications of the technology.
According to Weibo posts, the user and some of his programming friends used facial recognition to detect faces in porn content using photos from social platforms. His reasoning for making this program, he wrote, is “to have the right to know on both sides of the marriage.” After public outcry, he later claimed his intention was to allow women, with or without their fiancées, to check if they are on porn sites and to send a copyright takedown request.
"This is horrendous and a pitch-perfect example of how these systems, globally, enable male dominance," Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her , tweeted on Tuesday about the alleged project. "Surveillance, impersonation, extortion, misinformation all happen to women first and then move to the public sphere, where, once men are affected, it starts to get attention."
Whether the Weibo user’s claims are trustworthy or not is beside the point, now that experts in feminist studies and machine learning have decried this project as algorithmically-targeted harassment. This kind of program’s existence is both possible and frightening, and has started a conversation around whether such a program would be an ethically or legally responsible use of AI.
Just as we saw with deepfakes, which used AI to swap the faces of female celebrities onto the bodies of porn performers, the use of machine learning to control and extort women's bodily autonomy demonstrates deep misogyny. It's a threat that didn't begin with deepfakes, but certainly reached a public sphere with that technology—although in the years since, women have been left behind in the mainstream narrative, which has focused on the technology’s possible use for disinformation.
Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland who's studied the aftermath of deepfakes , also tweeted about this new claim on Weibo. "This is a painfully bad idea—surveillance and control of women’s bodies taken to new low," she wrote.
What he claims to have done is theoretically possible for someone with a decent amount of machine learning and programming knowledge, given enough time and computing power, though it would be a huge effort with no guarantee of quality.
The ability to create a database of faces like this, and deploy facial recognition to target and expose women within it, has been within consumer-level technological reach for some time.
In 2017, Pornhub proudly announced new facial recognition features that it claimed would make it easier for users to find their favorite stars—and, in turn, theoretically easier for abusers or harassers to find their targets. As I wrote at the time:
Even if Pornhub deploys this technology in an ethical way, its existence should be concerning. Such technology is unlikely to stay proprietary for long, and given that some people on the internet make a habit of identifying amateur or unwitting models, the underlying tech could supercharge some of these efforts.
In 2018, online trolls started compiling databases of sex workers, in order to threaten and out them. This harassment campaign had real-life consequences, with some sex workers having their payment processors or social media platforms shut down.
What this Weibo programmer is claiming to have built is a combination of these two ideas: A misogynistic, abusive attempt at controlling women. Whether it's real or not, it's representative of the dark paths where machine learning technology—and some of the societal toxicity around it—has taken us.
Jordan Pearson contributed reporting to this story.
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Just in time for the weekend, your dreams of having webcam sex with someone who looks just like Natalie Portman, or your hot neighbor, are about to come true.
Porn site Megacams just introduced a not-creepy-at-all feature that lets you upload a photo of someone you want to see nude and get matched up with a lookalike "sex model." The feature leverages facial-recognition technology to scan a photo — analyzing things like the bridge of the person's nose, their forehead, and chin — to find a similar-looking sex model in the site's database. What a world we live in, huh?
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Ever see an attractive person and wonder what he or she looked like naked?
Two porn websites have made that fantasy a reality, using facial-recognition technology to match user-submitted photos of people to porn stars.
But there doesn't appear to be any mechanism for consent on the part of the people whose images are submitted. And what happens if someone uses the matches to harass an ex-girlfriend, an ex-husband or a friend's mother?
"We think [facial] matching is the future and we stand behind it," Naughty America chief executive officer Eddie Arenas said when his company's "Face Match" feature went live in June. "What we've developed is a system where users can visually show us exactly what they want and then see similar images."
Face Match, available at face.naughtyamerica.com (the front page is safe for work), lets you upload, link to or email a JPEG file from a computer or mobile device.
It promises to find porn stars who look like the person whose photo you uploaded, along with links to images and video of those porn stars in business.
But there's a catch. We tried it using a public-domain photo of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, but whether we used a URL link or a direct upload, the Naughty America site told us that "high domain volume" prevented the feature from working immediately.
Instead, the site wanted our email address in order to send us the matches. We don't want porn emails coming to us at work, so we stopped right there.
We took a look at some of the examples offered on the Face Match site. They weren't too convincing. Five matches were offered for "Call Me Maybe" Carly Rae Jepsen, but none really looked like her, other than sharing Jepsen's dark shoulder-length hair.
Meanwhile, the matches for a purported user's "hot neighbor" (clearly a model) were even further off — they couldn't even get the hair color right. And matches for shock-jock Howard Stern were all women.
The other service, the amusingly named SexFaceFinder (front page barely safe for work) also matches images, but this time the results are women on the other end of paid live-video-chat services.
"Upload any picture of your fantasy girl and find her HOT LIVE look-alike!" the site promises.
We again tried the recent secretary of state. While the picture uploaded correctly, no results were found. Perhaps there weren't any fifty-something black women with bobbed hair in the database.
So we turned to another familiar figure: Kim Kardashian.
Amazingly, the woman whose face has graced a thousand supermarket-checkout magazine covers has no matches on SexFaceFinder.
Despite its failure at facial recognition, SexFaceFinder does have some advantages over Naughty America's Face Match.
Not only does SexFaceFinder let you upload PNG and BMP files as well as JPEGs, but it promises to "never save the pictures you upload," and doesn't pull a bait-and-switch to harvest your email address. Anyone can use it in complete privacy.
In that respect, as ZDNet's Violet Blue points out, SexFaceFinder is adhering to the Federal Trade Commission's recent recommendations regarding facial-recognition technology.
The FTC asks that companies using such technologies "develop reasonable security protections for the information they collect, and sound methods for determining when to keep information and when to dispose of it."
Naughty America might not be complying as closely. Several of its purportedly user-submitted examples appear to be of private citizens, who may not be aware they've been matched in public to porn stars.
In its Terms of Service for Face Match, Naughty America says that "You acknowledge that any content that you submit ... may be edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted and displayed by the Company and you waive any rights you may have in the material."
Futhermore, "The Company takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party," and users affirm that "submissions to the site shall not represent or portray any person who is under the age of eighteen (18) years old or under the age of majority."
An email seeking comment from La Touraine, Inc., parent company of Naughty America, was not immediately returned.
"Let's hope no one finds out the hard way whether or not Naughty America and SexFaceFinder's databases are maintained with mechanisms in place to deal with false, inappropriate or misattributed data," Violet Blue wrote in her ZDNet posting.
But she may not have much reason to worry. As far as we could tell, Face Match has received a total of 27 submissions since it launched in June, and most of the images submitted have been of celebrities.
And while SexFaceFinder seemed to handle privacy issues properly, in our tests it just didn't work.
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Did you ever wonder what adult film star you most resemble? No? Well, maybe some perv you've encountered in your personal life would like to know so that he can jerk off to you with some visual aids. That's basically how two porn sites—that use facial-recognition technology to match user-submitted photos of regular people to porn stars—are marketing their services, urging customers to upload pictures of their "fantasy girls" to find her hot lookalike. Of course, it's sketchier and more insidious than that.
Face Match, a feature of the site Naughty America allows users to submit a picture URL or upload photos from their desktops or mobile devices. Then matches are made and the user can then follow links to watch sex scenes of the lookalikes. The problem is that immediately upon doing so, the site says that due to a "high domain volume" they aren't able to process the request immediately and asks for an email address to send you the match. It's a scam to get users' email addresses. As for the examples of previous matches they have on their site, they aren't very good. The matches of "Call Me Maybe" singer Carly Rae Jepson (at left) just bring up brunettes of varying ethnicities. Same deal with Katy Perry , who was matched up with a brown-eyed Latina.
SexFaceFinder works a little differently. Users upload photos and the results are supposed to be actual women available for paid live video chats. The technology seems faulty though. Pictures uploaded of Jenna Jameson and Kim Kardashian—two women who inarguably have the most influential porn looks—yielded no results.
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