Challenge Winner Computer Vision News Computer Vision News 18 Public Identity Management According to a paper that was released with a Google co-author from 2024, across 10 countries that they surveyed, 2.2% of surveyed people said they fell victim to harassment using non-consensual, synthetic, intimate imagery. If you think 2.2% of the American population, it's millions! “Now why does that happen?,” Tal asks. “There's laws against that, that's a crime. But you cannot enforce it without looking for people who are not supposed to be there!” If you were an advertiser and wanted to use some famous person's likeness in an ad, you could just download the photo from Google Images, add your logo and put it on one of many ad platforms. It would then be seen by millions of people and nothing is there to stop it, because in order to stop it, you need to know that that person is there, by running face recognition. And that is a major regulatory problem. This was a problem long before generative AI. Since Photoshop, actually. WEIR AI is a research company that is developing new technology. Its goal is not to do face recognition.
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