AI may not be a good thing in the wrong hands
The ‘most disturbing website’ on the internet claims it can find every photo of you that exists.
As well as being a productivity tool, artificial intelligence (AI) can be a very dangerous – and creepy – tool too.
While it can be used to solve some pretty complex problems, it can also be used to spread mass misinformation and create systems that require minimal human intervention.
Worst case scenario, you’ve got evil AI-powered robots roaming the streets, which nobody wants.
Now that the world is getting used to playing around with ChatGPT – asking it to do get you out of parking tickets – we’re slowly understanding it’s true capabilities.
But just because the technology is new to us, doesn’t mean it’s new to the higher ups.
Though there’s one website that has really creeped some people out.
AI may not be a good thing in the wrong hands (Getty Stock Images)
The site in question is PimEyes, which uses AI to identify any other pictures of you that are online.
Some have been left calling it ‘the most disturbing AI website on the internet’.
But how does it work? As with most AI tools, it’s pretty simple.
All you have to do is upload a photo of yourself and let the AI work its magic (or not).
It’s meant to analyse the photo you’ve provided and bring together every picture of you that is on the internet.
It’s been labelled a ‘stalker’s dream’ by some users, while others have been more complimentary.
But when a LADbible colleague of ours tried out the site, they said: “It’s perhaps better at finding your doppelgängers than it is at tracking down every picture of you on the internet, but it is incredibly fast.
“The first two were pictures of me, though the remaining six were images of other people who shared some similar facial features, mostly the eyebrows and the beard.”
Another person thought the site was ‘disturbing but also extremely valuable’ and praised it for ‘finding who has used my face without my consent’ so they could order websites to take down the pictures.
It wouldn’t be the first AI tool to operate in a way different to that envisioned by its human creator.
Parcel firm DPD was left red-faced after it was made to take its AI chatbot offline after a customer made it write a poem and drop a swear word.
