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Simon Willison·· 2 d ago

Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal

Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal

AI summary

Simon Willison used GPT-6 Astra to build Photo Scrubber, an experimental tool that automatically detects and blurs faces. It is based on Google's MediaPipe C++ library, compiled to WebAssembly through @mediapipe/tasks-vision, and uses the BlazeFace face detection model. All processing runs locally.

Selection record

Not admittedSum of both 62 < twice the threshold 152

Source tier
Media and individuals; this tier's threshold is 76
Pre-filter
passed:用GPT-6和MediaPipe构建人脸模糊工具

A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.

Source: Simon Willison · simonwillison.net