Worried About Privacy for Your Selfies? These Tools Can Help Spoof Facial Recognition AI
Fawkes and LowKey are two tools that leverage adversarial attacks to spoof AI, preventing detection by facial recognition software. By Edited by Gadgets 360 Newsdesk | Updated: 10 May 2021 19:27 IST
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Fawkes introduces pixel-level alterations to images, thwarting recognition by AI
Highlights
Such software can be duped by using adversarial attacks
Two methods to spoof such AI were detailed at a conference recently
Ever wondered what happens to a selfie you upload on a social media site? Activists and researchers have long warned about data privacy and said that photographs uploaded on the Internet may be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) powered facial recognition tools. These AI-enabled tools (such as Clearview, AWS Rekognition, Microsoft Azure, and Face++) could in turn be used by governments or other