Fawkes Faces

Watched Fawkes: Protecting Personal Privacy against Unauthorized Deep Learning Models (USENIX Security 2020) from youtube.com

Fascinating watch

More on Fawkes This is really fascinating stuff.
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This is a commandline thing, but the instructions are fairly straightforward.

My test took a bit longer than 40 seconds per image. I can see a wee bit difference and there is a fair increase in file size. I wonder if the cloaking survives resizing or other image operations.

Update, the first run produced png files, I then read the help and set the format for output to jpg. That made the file size a lot smaller. 140 KB as opposed to the original 828 KB

I guess this ort of thing could be built in to image editors.

via: John Naughton Thursday 23 July, 2020 | Memex 1.1