Show HN: Recently deployed our beta version of our consumer photography app, trix.co.
High-level, Trix uses adversarial AI tech to manipulate your photos (before you upload them to Instagram, Facebook, and the like) in such a way that when Clearview.ai and others go to scrape your data, it is impossible for them to train facial recognition models off your content.
2) We are temporarily using the Fawkes algorithm under BSD license, while we work to validate our novel approach and publish test results
3) We have updated our ToS & Privacy Policy to be more user-friendly and more consistent with our values (we used a boilerplate version previously)
WE ARE HOPING TO PROMOTE OUR PROJECT AHEAD OF THE US ELECTION IN CASE OF THE NEED FOR PROTECTION OF CITIZEN IDENTITY IN MASS PROTESTS. We know that this version of our app no longer provides novel protection vs the Fawkes binary, but we do believe that our app will allow this technology to be used 10x more easily and by 10x more people during an important time.
High-level, Trix uses adversarial AI tech to manipulate your photos (before you upload them to Instagram, Facebook, and the like) in such a way that when Clearview.ai and others go to scrape your data, it is impossible for them to train facial recognition models off your content.
Updates:
1) Our mobile application and back-end code are now open source. See here to examine: https://github.com/trix-co/trix-app
2) We are temporarily using the Fawkes algorithm under BSD license, while we work to validate our novel approach and publish test results
3) We have updated our ToS & Privacy Policy to be more user-friendly and more consistent with our values (we used a boilerplate version previously)
WE ARE HOPING TO PROMOTE OUR PROJECT AHEAD OF THE US ELECTION IN CASE OF THE NEED FOR PROTECTION OF CITIZEN IDENTITY IN MASS PROTESTS. We know that this version of our app no longer provides novel protection vs the Fawkes binary, but we do believe that our app will allow this technology to be used 10x more easily and by 10x more people during an important time.
Links to privacy policy & ToS: https://www.trix.co/privacy https://www.trix.co/terms