Using neural style transfer to avoid surveillance

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I was hoping it was a forum with automatic stylometric obfuscation / anti-word-fingerprinting.

Not disappointed - this is even cooler, and the "avoiding photos because of consumption" is a vibe I jive with a lot. I've always thought AOL was ahead of its time with avatars - with profile pictures just being filters nowadays (neural -powered ones, even), the thought is ever more prescient.

Thanks! This comment made me happy :-)

I do think about how photography’s claim to authority - its claim to represent some objective reality we all live in - is being questioned by the prevalence of filters and photoshop on social media.

It is not that social media is a digital reflection of the physical world, but more of an alternate reality in which we all have digital avatars that may or may not correspond to a physical self.

In my understanding, facial recognition is more about measuring distances between “landmarks”, such as eye-to-eye, nose-to-eyes, eyes-to-ears, etc.

Style transfer mostly changes the texture of strokes/fill, so it shouldn’t affect face recognition much.

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