How To Cloak Images With Fawkes

How To Cloak Images With Fawkes - Distort Facial Recognition Models

In this video, I will be showing you how to cloak your images with Fawkes. Facial recognition Search Engines, artificial intelligence, facial recognition models, systems and databases are becoming more sophisticated as the years ago by. Pimeyes a face search engine is one of the most concerning tools as it is accessible to anyone. For example, a complete stranger, could request to take a selfie with you which at the time you may have thought was innocent enough and you comply with their request. However, if you have an online presence, that selfie could then be uploaded to Pimeyes and used to find personal identifiable information about you within seconds of them taking that photo. Clearview AI is another facial recognition software tool that uses an algorithm to match faces to a database of more than 20 billion images indexed from all over the Internet. If this concerns you, The SAND Lab at University of Chicago has developed Fawkes. Fawkes is an algorithmic software tool that performs image cloaking for personal privacy on your local computer. Fawkes performs the cloaking process by taking your personal images and making tiny, pixel-level changes. These cloaked images can then be used as you normally would, such as sharing them on social media or sending them to family and friends. If you want to know more about Fawkes and its limitations, check out my video description.

Fawkes - SAND Lab https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/

Steps To Cloak Images Using Fawkes:

1. Open up your browser and navigate to https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/
2. Scroll down, and click on the Mac or Windows download button for the Fawkes Software
3. Once the download has finished, locate the Fawkes.exe or Fawkes.dmg file on your computer and double click on it to open it
4. Add images/photos to Fawkes by clicking on the Select images button and choose your images to run the Fawkes cloaking algorithm on
5. Once done, click Run Protection to cloak your image(s)
6. Your cloaked image(s) will appear in the same location as your original images and will have the same name as your uncloaked image(s) with an additional part to it. For example if your image was called portrait.JPG, when cloaked it will now be called portrait_low_cloaked.JPG.

Congratulations, you have successfully cloaked your image(s) using Fawkes.

Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro & Context 1:15 - Cloak Images With Fawkes 4:20 - Compare Cloaked Fawkes Image With Non Cloaked Image 5:19 - Closing & Outro

Pimeyes https://pimeyes.com/en Clearview AI https://www.clearview.ai/

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