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I find it rather alarming and creepy that this integration with Google Vision API reads a photo/selfie and then tries to assess one's income, religion, politics and then recommends target advertising.

It didn't do this back in December.

Yes, even if it's a photo of your cat! ... privacy at your own risk. Try it via -
theyseeyourphotos.com/

"The Tabby cat is a mammal. It is likely earning 0-100 USD a year. It is possibly a follower of paganism. The creature seems observant, lethargic, and tranquil. The cat is not wearing any clothes. It enjoys activities such as sleeping, grooming, and staring contests, while it may also engage in shredding toilet paper, biting ankles, and shedding hairballs. The cat is unlikely to be politically affiliated.

The Tabby cat seems to exhibit predictable behavior and susceptibility to visual stimuli; hence we can target it with niche and general pet-related products, such as catnip-infused scratch posts (FelineFrolic), self-cleaning litter boxes (LitterLess)... "

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@Natasha_Jay

This is quite scary, truth be told.

Just ran a couple of pictures, and it was fascinating to see the results.
Some things felt on the mark. Others were way off completely!

@ishambard
Yes exactly. The future intent of this has me wondering if I should delete all selfies here (I'm ferociously private and not on other SM apart from an old LinkedIn account where I deleted my PFP pic)

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@Natasha_Jay @ishambard I feel bad for the influencers who have spent years making videos to advertise products. This one lady I follow for hair care stuff found out that someone made a fake AI ad out of her to pretend she was promoting some weird hair tool. She only found out because people bought the hair tool and then contacted her to find out why she promoted it because it was trash.

The video they made of her wasn’t even that well, but because there were a lot of legitimate clips they could use they only had to use AI to fill in parts of it.