The process is straightforward: upload a photo of yourself, and the AI will scour the internet to find all matching images.
When a LADbible team member tested PimEyes, their feedback was mixed: “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.”
Despite these quirks, another user found the site both “disturbing but also extremely valuable,” highlighting its potential for tracking down unauthorized uses of personal photos and enabling users to demand their removal.
PimEyes is not the first AI tool to function in unexpected ways. In a lighter example, parcel delivery company DPD had to pull its AI chatbot offline after a customer tricked it into writing a poem that included a swear word.
While tools like PimEyes showcase the double-edged nature of AI, they also remind us of its capacity for both incredible benefits and unsettling consequences.
