Still another search turned up a photo of a toddler from an American home-schooling blog, where the girl’s mother had revealed her first name and, when the family was traveling, rough whereabouts. The commentator gave the boy’s first name and details about the school he attended. A second page on the same website showed the girl at home this spring by then, Kyiv was under siege, the program had gone remote, and teachers were assigning kids craft projects to complete from their kitchen tables.Ī third search turned up a photo of a 14-year-old British boy that had been featured in a video about the U.K. (The photographer did not respond to requests to comment for this article.)Īnother search turned up a girl displaying a craft project at an after-school program in Kyiv, Ukraine, in a photo taken just before the war. But a determined person might theoretically be able to find such information. When she posted the portraits in her online portfolio, the photographer omitted the boy’s name and other identifying details.
One search for an AI-generated child turned up images of a real boy in Delaware, where a photographer had taken portraits of his family on a sunny spring day. Some come from personal websites that parents created anonymously or semi-anonymously to feature photos of their children, likely not anticipating that they could one day be pulled up by strangers taking snapshots of kids on the street. Instead, searches churn up a welter of images that feel plucked from the depths of the internet. It no longer includes those images in search results. PimEyes previously came under fire for including photos scraped from major social media platforms. While The Intercept searched for fake faces due to privacy concerns, the results contained many images of actual children pulled from a wide range of sources, including charity groups and educational sites. But searches on PimEyes for 30 AI-generated children’s faces yielded dozens of pages of results, showing how easily those same tools can be turned against the people they’re designed to help. One child abuse prevention nonprofit, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore’s Thorn, has even developed its own facial recognition tool. Over the past few years, several child victim advocacy groups have pushed for police use of surveillance technologies to fight trafficking, arguing that facial recognition can help authorities locate victims. “But it’s particularly dangerous when we’re talking about children, when someone may use that to identify a child and to track them down.” “There are privacy issues raised by the use of facial recognition technology writ large,” said Jeramie Scott, director of the Surveillance Oversight Project at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Often called the Google of facial recognition, PimEyes search results include images that the site labels as “potentially explicit,” which could lead to further exploitation of children at a time when the dark web has sparked an explosion of images of abuse. The online facial recognition search engine PimEyes allows anyone to search for images of children scraped from across the internet, raising a host of alarming possible uses, an Intercept investigation has found. Pedophiles stalking the victims they encounter in illicit child sexual abuse material. Governments targeting the sons and daughters of political dissidents. Abusive parents searching for kids who have fled to shelters.
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