Have you been faked?

by wastemaster • 7 years ago

73 71 7 years ago

lawlessone• 7 years ago

was very worrried this was going to be like "haveibeenpwnd" glad to see it isn't

haha well, I was looking at them too. I'm not a native speaker, so considered to use at least their name scheme haveibeenfaked.co or something. Fortunately chosen current option

jaclaz4• 7 years ago

You have probably seen https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ by Philip Wang.
But have you ever wondered if they made photos that look like you? Let's check!
We collected the huge dataset of 428526 fake generated photos and extracted their facial parameters with https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition. Now you can match your image against fake faces and compare with the closest matches. Enjoy!

Maybe it is just me, but how would I go if I wanted to harvest large numbers of "real" photos of "real" persons?

Having curious people uploading them to my website could be an easy way.

yorwba• 7 years ago

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ only exists because someone already collected enough real photos of real persons to have a neural network learn their distribution well enough to generate new samples.

Harvesting even more photos is not really necessary at this point, and in any case, scraping them off the web would be faster than creating a novelty website.

jaclaz4• 7 years ago

Harvesting even more photos is not really necessary at this point, and in any case, scraping them off the web would be faster than creating a novelty website.

But scraping them from the web says nothing about the source, even if you manage to remove all stock photos.

This way it is IMHO more likely that it is a "real" photo, most probably uploaded by a "real" user and the site has also the IP of the sender.

Morover, most photos you can find on the web have had their EXIF information removed by the host, maybe it is not the case for a casual user.

As I see it scraping them off the web is good for quantity but not so much for quality, this (completely hypothetical) approach would give less quantity but IMHO better quality data.

brlewis• 7 years ago

Maybe it is just me, but how would I go if I wanted to harvest large numbers of "real" photos of "real" persons?

Use APIs or scraping to collect profile photos from facebook, twitter, google, gravatar, etc. You'll get a lot of non-person photos, but havetheyfaked.me probably does too.

jaclaz4• 7 years ago

Yep, but as said above that would be "big data" with the need of de-duplicating them and with no additional (reliable) parameters.

Then you will need some AI (or whatever) to remove non-human photos or non-suitable photos (position, lighting, etc.) whilst this method would almost guarantee only "portraits" or "upper torso" pictures of humans.

What I tried to say wasn't that this is the "only" method, but that it is one of the "easy" ones with a high probability of getting "reliable" data.

devb• 7 years ago

how would I go if I wanted to harvest large numbers of "real" photos of "real" persons?

I guess you could just steal them from Flickr?

http://fortune.com/2019/03/12/millions-of-flickr-photos-were...

navane• 7 years ago

Maybe all the images from thispersondoesnotexist.com are coming from havetheyfaked.me?

thatguyagain2• 7 years ago

Where does my face end up when I submit it to this website?

kacamak• 7 years ago

On thispersondoesnotexist.com

wastemaster9• 7 years ago

This is a good question. the thing is that except you photo I have to extract its vector of facial parameters to match fakes. So with this 128-dimentional vector I can find you on other photos (if I had some)

All the pics and their vectors stay on this small server. if you want to be deleted please drop me a letter wastemaster@gmail.com

jstanley2• 7 years ago

Why don't you delete them all automatically as soon as you've finished processing them?

plibither82• 7 years ago

All the pics and their vectors stay on this small server.

This should be mentioned on the website.

if you want to be deleted please drop me a letter wastemaster@gmail.com

There should be an easier mechanism to request a deletion of our photo. Better still, request permission from the user to store the photo in your servers before actually storing them.

I think this is the bare minimum of transparency that should required before letting people upload personal data, especially in this day and age.

jaclaz4• 7 years ago

This is a good question. the thing is that except you photo I have to extract its vector of facial parameters to match fakes. So with this 128-dimentional vector I can find you on other photos (if I had some)

And - with all due respect - an alternative would be providing an open-source program to create offline this "128-dimentional vector" and upload only this latter and NOT the photo.

hnaccy• 7 years ago

Uh why wouldn't they be automatically trashed after processing?

stfwn• 7 years ago

All the pics and their vectors stay on this small server.

Not to take a jab at you specifically, but the fact that someone that can make websites like these is ignorant enough about privacy (law) to casually drop this line marks a worrying development in the accessibility of AI tech.

For impactful technologies, we probably want the required domain knowledge to come with some structural social disciplining so that we can collectively steer that impact in the right direction (whatever that is). Clearly AI libraries have become so easy to use professional ethics are not part of the curriculum.

homarp• 7 years ago

can you do the extraction client side, and only send the vector ?

gsich• 7 years ago

This needs to be open-sourced and self-hostable. (if it works, haven't uploaded anything)

Semaphor• 7 years ago

Already hugged to death it seems: Error 502 Bad gateway

edit: working again. So far I haven't been faked ;)

wastemaster9• 7 years ago

yep needs some tuning // added some more resources to it

aw4y• 7 years ago

not yet....but... :)

amelius• 7 years ago

Can this same algorithm be used to find doppelgängers?

ddeck• 7 years ago

There are plenty of sites for that:

https://twinstrangers.net/

https://www.ilooklikeyou.com/

https://www.twinlets.com/

https://findmydoppelganger.net/

https://www.twinfinders.com/

etc.

Disclaimer: This the result of a "find my twin" search. I know nothing about the credibility of these sites.

w-m• 7 years ago

They haven't faked Matt Damon yet. Thank god!

https://havetheyfaked.me/u/f/ab60f524-6111-41a4-afef-211d299...

giancarlostoro• 7 years ago

One of the similar faces has a kid that could be his illegitimate son though.

discobean• 7 years ago

So, anybody have the balls to upload their photo yet?

Harvey-Specter• 7 years ago

What do you imagine is going to happen if you upload your photo?

jimijazz• 7 years ago

I did, but the matches do not look like me.

oppressedgf• 7 years ago

Everyone's getting absolutely bloody terrified about uploading their photos... What do you think the creator's gonna do, drive to your house and kill you, knowing nothing but what you look like?

pgt• 7 years ago

This would be cool tech for finding single people you are attracted to based on a reference image.

thatguyagain2• 7 years ago

This is a really cool idea

johnbatch• 7 years ago

What happened here? https://havetheyfaked.me/d/ed0949b5-7a05-4614-8b0e-267e4458a...

Also I got told I matched with this https://havetheyfaked.me/d/c4662bf7-eb98-4c7f-a59d-6c96c9c1f...

MayeulC• 7 years ago

There seems to be plenty of less-than-pleasant outputs from this net. I had a couple of strange ones when I landed: [1][2]. If those were generated with GAN, the adversarial network could really use another training pass with examples like this (and if GANs are not used, there could be a simple network filtering the first net's output).

[1] https://havetheyfaked.me/d/539e20e9-560c-4a8d-a2ba-ca89e2c9a...

[2] https://havetheyfaked.me/d/86526a1d-bbe7-4956-8bec-a7e64e082...

smoyer• 7 years ago

I hate to be the one to break the news to you but ... you are a zombie (it's the only way they'd match your photo to pictures of computer-generated undead).

itronitron• 7 years ago

They are trying to match photos to the top right expression on that page (the 2nd link)

deepstream2• 7 years ago

I love this comment mood. Everyone losing it when some random small website asks people to upload their photo if they want to find out some random information. But everyone's cool with sharing constantly on FB, IG, uploading their photos and locations to massive companies, etc etc. The internet has reality distorted everyone's perspective. Orwell would be have something to say about it. Everyone loves Big Brother (FAANG etc) but distrusts each other. Divide and conquer much?

nkrisc• 7 years ago

I think you'll find an above average amount of people here who despise FAANG and haven't given them anything.

Kye• 7 years ago

There's no reason to assume people commenting here about risks use any of those sites and post their photos to them.

Yajirobe• 7 years ago

There is no reason to assume that they don't.

lm28469• 7 years ago

It's almost has if big companies were regulated but personal websites were not.

when some random small website

It could be some random website. It could also be a 3 letters agency website training airport security face detection, a social engineering website, a random website storing images in a public s3 bucket.

The internet has reality distorted everyone's perspective.

You give all your personal / biometric info when you get a new passport. If some rando guy were asking for your biometric data in a street would you give him ?

mamon• 7 years ago

> It could also be a 3 letters agency website training airport security face detection

3 letter agencies will kindly ask/force Facebook to share their face-detection data and algorithms, no need to do this themselves.

In fact I think the biggest co-conspirator of NSA and other agencies is Apple. First they put fingerprint sensor inside Home button, so you can't avoid using it, and have to share your fingerprints whether you like it or not. Now that they captured enough fingerprints they move to FaceID, which sensors are so conveniently placed that you cant avoid having your face scanned, even if you don't ever set up FaceID for your own use.

Mc_Big_G• 7 years ago

Everyone = Everyone - me

p2detar• 7 years ago

Well I'll be! It really works. [1]

Joke aside, I really enjoy both of these projects. It's fascinating that you can put a story behind every "fake" face.

1 - https://havetheyfaked.me/u/f/7b8ec517-c5a6-4e43-8bae-5be69ee...

kingkawn• 7 years ago

Am I the only one deeply disturbed by the emotional presence of these generated “people”?

paradigmshiv• 7 years ago

The teeth is what bothers me

sergiotapia• 7 years ago

I'm freaked out that literally non of these people exist - yet they're there. I can see them. Some eldritch shit yo.

wastemaster9• 7 years ago

Got two gdpr complaints, so I added automated removal of uploaded photos and metadata extracted from those photos.

Now photos and data are only stored for 3 minuites, then deleted (app artitecture requires server side processing of uploaded file and to compare results with your photo I have to store it - to be able to show)

Also reflected information above on the website itself. Thank you for your interest to this project!

accountwasmade2• 7 years ago

Well done. Does this apply to all images that have ever been uploaded to the website, or only to the ones uploaded after your update? If an user uploaded an image 2 hours ago, will their image be stored or has it been deleted already?

wastemaster9• 7 years ago

applies to every uploaded photo of this website, uploaded at any time

lkbm• 7 years ago

None of the matches looked a ton like me, imo, but I tried five photos of myself from 2011-2018 and a couple matches kept reoccurring -- not as top match, but in the top few, so that was interesting.

I didn't trim my beard or mustache from 2009 - 2012, when I shaved it off entirely, and I didn't cut my hair from 1996 - 2017, so there's some good variation in these pictures.

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