'Most disturbing website on internet' can find every single picture that exists of you
We've all done it - had a cheeky Google of ourselves to see what we can find out about ourselves. Perhaps you've even seen some pictures of ourselves pop up in the results.
Chances are it's a few dodgy Facebook pictures or a random one from when you worked in a marketing agency for a bit and they insisted on super smiley headshots for the company website.
Yet now AI has stepped into the game and finding pictures of yourself is being turned on its head.
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Now you can see every - and we mean EVERY - single picture of yourself possible that exists on the internet. Even the ones you didn't really need reminding of.
Yes, AI isn't just creating chatbots of Kendall Jenner on Instagram or creating 'perfect' images of people based on where they live, it's also now being used as the ultimate search tool to find every single image of yourself in what many are calling 'the most disturbing AI website on the internet'.
Enter the strangely addictive website called PimEyes.
The basic premise is that you give the site a photo of yourself and it searches the internet to identify any other pictures of you that are online, so you can in theory see all the places on the internet where there are images of you.
Some think it could be a great tool for controlling the use of your own image on the internet, while others have said it would be 'a stalker's dream'.
Going off the results of a quick test of the site, out of our own sheer curiosity, it's perhaps better at finding your doppelgängers than it is at tracking down every picture of you on the internet, but it is incredibly fast.
I popped a quick snap of myself into the search engine and let it get to work. It wasn't long before I was presented back with a few different images of myself, but then some of other brunette women and one man that is rocking enviable looking long brown hair.
If this was just using the free version then signing up for the paid service could potentially have found even more as the website could do a much more in-depth search and also provide links to every single place the pictures appeared, which some people welcomed as a useful tool.
One person said the site was 'disturbing but also extremely valuable' and praised it for 'finding who has used my face without my consent' so they could order websites to take down the pictures.
Others agreed that this would actually be a welcome and useful way of using the site, while someone else said they uploaded a picture of themselves as a nine-year-old and had the site accurately identifying images of themselves as an adult.
They suggested it could be very useful with 'missing children reports', but people found that this technology also worked the other way around too.
Another said she uploaded a recent picture of herself and PimEyes recognised a picture of her on the internet of when she was 10 years old.
PimEyes does allow people to opt-out of appearing in people's searches, but they want a scan of your ID or passport to verify that it's you doing this.
What do you think?