The facial recognition technologies increasingly are more established in our daily lives. The new terminals can now be unlocked by recognizing our face and even Google or Facebook identify our family or friends through this system and then include them among our suggestions. But as in everything, there are always those who turn the matter around, and if a while ago we talked to you about the risks that this big data had and uploading our photos to social networks, what comes today is to grab the seat and take a breath, but okay.
A company of webcams (porn, of course), Megacams.me, offers a service with which, through facial recognition software, we can find people dedicated to this of the webcams that look like us or the main character of the photo that we upload.
We have done the test but for obvious reasons we are not going to upload the results, since we are not authorized to show indecent photos in technology articles. But if you want, you can try this facial recognition system with erotic dyes. The procedure is very simple: you just have to access through this link , upload a photo, provide an email and in a matter of minutes you will receive a link directly to your mailbox with all the reasonable similarities that the system has scanned . That simple
The percentages of coincidence in the resemblance (in my case) ranged from 11% to 49% but it is curious, because I attached a photo of my face and the ladies who were supposed to resemble me showed something - quite a bit - more.
For now, it is not known for sure who is the developer of the software with which the porn site works, but here there is a lot of crumbs since, from the Techcrunch technology page , they assure that the facial recognition API in question is developed, nothing more and nothing less than Microsoft . Of course, the company would never recognize this since it does not want to be involved in "projects" of a pornographic nature.
It would be like this: Microsoft offers 30,000 free search operations on its facial recognition API per month and after that only charges $ 1.50 for every 1,000 transactions. In addition, Megacams could be doing the face detection part as such with the help of OPENCV, an open source library that was developed in its day by Intel.
In short, an on-demand webcam porn site is taking advantage of technology developed by multinational technology companies so that users can fulfill sexual fantasies by searching among their performers for people similar to people they know, or who knows, people similar to themselves - the latter is still a bit more grotesque but seeing the success of these things I do not rule it out.