Ivan Braun

AI Anonymizer - Use virtual faces to secure your identity for free

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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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Ivan Braun
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.
Primer
@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.
Ivan Braun
@visualpharm this is not a gallery titled "Flattering Hairstyles for Thinning Hair". These are my generated other selves.
Ivan Braun
@visualpharm @mickc79 Great question! We don't store them. Here:
Julia Gnedin
I have been looking for a new photo for Tinder :)
Jay June
@julia_gnedina turns out less pretty than your real self, but safe😅
Ivan Braun
@julia_gnedina @jay_june mine are better looking 😬
Jay June
Ken Savage
@julia_gnedina how YOU doin?
Ian Miller
@julia_gnedina I think they missed the market demand for this product. Should be called AI wingman!
t3ma
now I know what my Pakistani counterparts will look like! )))
Ivan Braun
@temaprint hahaha how? post it here 🙏
t3ma
@temaprint @visualpharm look at my strong pakistani bro
Tyler Lastovich
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.
George Novik
You guys have done a great job. It will be very useful to use it for the good of social engineering.
Ivan Braun
@novik_george interesting! Any particular use case?
George Novik
@visualpharm It is quite possible to work under the cover of volunteers using social engineering against cyber scammers.
Ivan Braun
@visualpharm @novik_george oh, I see. Sure, that's a great reason. One of the police departments was evaluating if they can use the portraits of children to catch pedophiles. By law, they can't use the pictures of actual children for that.
Bogdan Ionita
Looks cool:D
Ivan Braun
@bogdan_ionita I choose one for you if you don't mind:
Bogdan Ionita
@visualpharm :)))) noice!
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.
Ivan Braun
@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
Pavel Pavluychik
Wow so cool! Good work guys
Ivan Braun
Nadav Dakner
Very cool guys! I'll give it a shot today :)
Ivan Braun
@nadavdakner it's no time to try: as easy as Cmd+V with any image. PS Share the result here!
felix hellström
Okay so from now one I can't even trust peoples profile pictures. Haha This is great. I have to try this.
Luba Zee
@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
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