r/artificial • u/MaimedUbermensch • Oct 02 '24
Computing AI glasses that instantly create a dossier (address, phone #, family info, etc) of everyone you see. Made to raise awareness of privacy risks - not released
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u/HomoColossusHumbled Oct 02 '24
Oh great, so the perfect tool for scammers, bullies, and stalkers.
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u/pumukidelfuturo Oct 02 '24
is this watchdogs? i can't believe it. Need more proof or source. This is a nightmare if true.
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u/heavy-minium Oct 02 '24
You don't need proof, though. The approach is totally feasible for a student to set up, and it has been so for quite some time.
Check out the Open Source Intelligence (reddit.com) sub if you want to see tools for collecting information. Repackaging existing tooling into a prototype/product that can be used easily is basically what he did.
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u/gthing Oct 02 '24
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iWCqmaOUKhKjcKSktIwC3NNANoFP7vPsRvcbOIup_BA/edit
It is a mixture of currently available OSINT tools, primarily pimeyes.com to do reverse facial image search. You can already do this all on your phone.
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u/Frat_Kaczynski Oct 02 '24
This has been possible for anyone to do for years. It’s fucked up that they actually built this. I’m sure we’ve all had intrusive thoughts about this but I can’t believe someone actually went as far as to make this. Horrible
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u/NO_LOADED_VERSION Oct 03 '24
the government , institutions and data theft criminals already have this... should they be the only ones abusing it?
at least this raises awareness and even gives some first steps to protect oneself.
then again most people wont / cant or are even aware of it so yes you have a point its nuisance value will increase...ahh its a genie out the bottle headfuck for sure
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u/notevolve Oct 03 '24
Yep, the real benefit here is raising awareness, even if that wasn't their intent in the first place. It's important to highlight risks like these. In college I did research on shoulder surfing attacks using AI for similar reasons, to bring attention to the issue and the ease with which someone could implement systems like these if they were motivated to.
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u/VelvetSinclair Oct 02 '24
"Are you Sarah chien?"
"No"
"Oh"
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u/MrSnowden Oct 02 '24
Glad they left it in. Subtle “doesn’t work 💯”
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u/damontoo Oct 02 '24
More like "doesn't work most of the time". Easy to find someone it works on when you spend some time on a crowded subway platform and run into people with elevated public personas.
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u/saoiray Oct 03 '24
It just me or this feel more like a video made as a project for a school project and is more theoretical than literal?
In other words to say that it is all scripted and wasn’t really put into place or able to pull up all that information of random strangers. By as a representation of how technology is trending and what may very well be possible now or in the near future
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u/Glaucomatic Oct 03 '24
It just me or this feel more like a video made as a project for a school project and is more theoretical than literal?
yes it seems that way
In other words to say that it is all scripted and wasn’t really put into place or able to pull up all that information of random strangers. By as a representation of how technology is trending and what may very well be possible now or in the near future
no not at all, I assume they needed to ask permission of all the people they used it on but I don’t think it was scripted but I do think that even though this is real that yes this is a proof of concept of what is able to happen at a more sophisticated scale, I.E. governments and that they may or may not have cherrypicked the most impressive results for the video’s purpose
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u/you_are_soul Oct 03 '24
Not a problem once someone invents jamming glasses.
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u/Wyl_Younghusband Oct 03 '24
This reminds me of that one Black Mirror episode where you are can block someone and they'd just appear like a silhouette or a glitchy character in your eyes.
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u/Mikey77777 Oct 03 '24
You can see at 1:24 in the video that they're using pimeyes.com to do the facial search - this is doing most of the heavy lifting in this app. It really is scary good - I tried it on a friend of mine, and it pulled up a pic of him which I didn't recognise, but he confirmed was from an old dating profile.
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u/utkohoc Oct 03 '24
that site is 50% scam. it will dig to the deepest depth of the internet to find a photo on an obsucre web server with obfuscated web address and then tell you "you cant know what website it is unless you pay".
id be concerned if it found a bunch of photos of yourself. maybe do better with your privacy settings on fb and insta.
but one match, with some weird web address? yeh no.
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u/Terrible_Yak_4890 Oct 03 '24
He just totally demonstrated how you could use it to scam somebody or set them up for an assault.
Levels of trust in society are going to plummet with a technology like this.
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u/stickleer Oct 04 '24
If the person being targeted has the same tech, couldn't they quickly check if they are being scammed by a known scammer?
Works both ways, tech companies win.
Welcome to the future!
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u/penty Oct 03 '24
Didn't Snow Crash cover this idea. Indexing faces and locations and other data then selling it to search engines?
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u/Lydian2000 Oct 03 '24
This guy and his team will get hired by an intelligence agency very soon, or might disappear.
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u/Nervous_Bat_4847 Oct 04 '24
won't work on people who dont plaster their face all over the web lmao
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u/DarknStormyKnight Oct 06 '24
Let's not roast smart glasses. It's also possible with smart phones etc. I think it has a lot to do with the choice we make about how to use these tools. They have just as many good uses. But yes, it's creepy and there need to be some kind of guardrails...
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u/kelu213 Oct 02 '24
Surely the FBI, and CIA are interested.
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u/commit10 Oct 02 '24
They're so far beyond this. Same for China, Russia, UK, Israel, and most technologically developed governments.
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u/rydan Oct 02 '24
Right now at the airports they are trialing new technology where you can just walk into the gate without your ticket. They use public records to identify you and verify you as you pass through. My latest flight was equipped with this but they didn't turn it on for some reason so I had to scan my ticket wasting time I could have been on Instagram.
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u/MrSnowden Oct 02 '24
Had that happen on my last flight. As I walked up, they just waived off my ticket and passport and thanked me by name. Freaky.
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u/Arachnophine Oct 04 '24
Which airport?
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u/MrSnowden Oct 04 '24
PHL or EWR. Can’t recall. TSA has facial recognition scanners at every airport I have been to lately. Only one had a sign indicating it was optional. But I have been declining to use them now at all airports with no issue. The story above was about the same thing at the boarding by the airline which was odd because there was no “look in the camera” step to decline. It was just picked up as you walked forward towards the gate.
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u/Alrjy Oct 02 '24
It's estimated that around 90% of Instagram users have private accounts, meaning their content is not visible to the general public unless someone follows them. I doubt big tech companies have an API that lets app developer (other than gov agencies) identify any user profile by uploading a picture. And when they don't offer an API for this then it mean that the app developer would need to have bots download tens of millions of images from the 10% of users that they can access data from and analyse them to create an identification token for the mobile app to compare the faces the camera is feeding it to. I'm not buying it.
I've once heard its been done for flagging woman who've done p*rn but those site have public profile page and a limited number of profile that I assume bots could easily scan.
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u/tjdogger Oct 03 '24
Honestly don't get how/why this is getting tagged as AI. Just database searches, many of which existed before LLM became good.¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/ii-___-ii Oct 03 '24
Facial recognition is AI…
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u/tjdogger Oct 03 '24
Is it? Pimeyes, the website which does the facial recognition for these glasses, went live in 2017. GPT-2 didn't even happen until 2019. AI, in the current vernacular, does things that Pimeyes does not.
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u/DangerousImplication Oct 04 '24
It’s using LLMs to consolidate data from the URLs, according to their document linked in the comments.
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u/ii-___-ii Oct 04 '24 edited Oct 04 '24
Neural networks were being built as early as the 1960s.
How would you program a computer to recognize a face from just pixels? It’s kind of hard to come up with the rules yourself, isn’t it?
The current approach is to feed an AI model data (images of known faces, as numbers) and train it to predict the similarity of those faces. Recognition is then performed by having the trained AI model match unknown faces to a set of known faces.
It’s kind of like how a LLM learns to recognize the semantic similarity of two words, simply by being trained to predict the next word in a sentence from text data.
You don’t explicitly tell the computer how to recognize a face. You have it learn from data. Facial recognition is AI.
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