Shawn Ryan's Face Became a Search Engine 😳
Shawn Ryan demonstrates a facial recognition technology that can identify his face across the entire internet by analyzing 120 facial data points from a single photo never previously published online. The tool successfully locates multiple images of him without prior tagging or identification.
Summary
In this demonstration, Shawn Ryan is shown how facial recognition technology works by having a new photo taken of him—one that has never been published on the internet. This fresh image is then used as a search query to find every instance of his face on the internet, regardless of whether he is tagged in those images or not. The technology measures 120 distinct points on his face to create a facial map that can be matched against images across the web. Even theoretically, if his face appeared in a crowd scene in the middle of a Super Bowl stadium broadcast, the technology could locate and identify it as long as that content exists online. The demonstration reveals the breadth of the search results, with the transcript noting "this just keeps going," suggesting an extensive number of matches were found. Ryan is given the opportunity to review the discovered images to identify any that he might want removed from the internet.
Key Insights
- Facial recognition technology can identify and locate a person's face across the entire internet by measuring 120 distinct facial data points from a single source image
- The technology can find facial matches even when a person is not tagged in images or appears incidentally in large crowd scenes like a Super Bowl stadium
- A photograph that has never been published on the internet can be used to find numerous images of that person already existing online
- Facial recognition search produces extensive results, with the volume of matching images being substantial enough to require scrolling through multiple results
- Users can review and potentially remove images of themselves that have been identified through facial recognition technology
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Transcript
[0:00] So basically what you're doing is you're taking a photo of me. It's going to find every image on the internet that has my face in it, whether I'm tagged in it or not. You could find my face in the middle of the Super Bowl stadium. >> As long as it's on the internet. So yeah, let me take a picture and send it to myself. This has never been on the internet, right? >> That is a really good looking man right there. >> Amazing. [laughter] You can go through these and see if there's anything that you don't want on there. But remember, I used the picture that was never on the internet to find those…
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