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AI · simonwillison.net · Thursday, 1 October 2026

An experimental tool blurs identifiable faces in protest photos

This experimental tool helps people share protest photos without publishing strangers’ identifiable faces: it detects faces and automatically blurs them. It uses Google’s MediaPipe C++ library compiled to WebAssembly, together with the BlazeFace face-detection model, so the image-processing pieces can run as software rather than a separate service.

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