{"id":20834,"date":"2019-07-19T02:06:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T09:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/?p=20834"},"modified":"2019-07-19T02:06:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T09:06:02","slug":"faceapp-back-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/faceapp-back-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"FaceApp: Back to the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days, many celebrities, but also anonymous people, have had fun transforming their faces with the AI photo editor <strong>FaceApp<\/strong>. As a result, <strong>social networks<\/strong> are overflowing with photos of old friends with a heavy dose of realism.<\/p>\n<p>Some went so far as to age portraits of celebrities as young people and compare these with their true-age images a few decades later. The result is realistic and the application does indeed appear to show the future!<\/p>\n<p>The trend has grown to such an extent that <strong>FaceApp<\/strong> has become the most downloaded photo application on <strong>Google Play<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the application is not new and dates from 2017. Launched by Russian engineer <strong>Yaroslav Goncharov<\/strong>, it employs a small team of about four people based in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>It offers several successful filters, including the filter for aging, but also the filter that adds a smile to the face. Image retouching is therefore carried out automatically using &#8220;<strong>automatic learning<\/strong>&#8221; software that works via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/22\/the-role-of-artificial-intelligence-in-a-collaborative-intranet\/\">artificial intelligence technologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to what has been disclosed, the application does not upload all your photos without your permission. However, it makes the necessary changes to the selected photos in its <strong>cloud environment<\/strong>. The stored photos can be used by the company to develop its <strong>automatic retouching software<\/strong>, or to build databases with the faces of its users. These images may even promote <strong>FaceApp<\/strong> one day.<\/p>\n<p>So, before traveling through time, think carefully about the future of your photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/exoplatform\/cartoon-of-the-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-pin-do=\"embedBoard\" data-pin-scale-width=\"80\" data-pin-scale-height=\"200\" data-pin-board-width=\"400\" target=\"_blank\">Follow eXo Platform&#8217;s board Cartoon of the Week on Pinterest.<\/a><script src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\" async=\"\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In recent days, many celebrities, but also anonymous people, have had fun transforming their faces with the AI photo editor FaceApp. As a result, social networks are overflowing with photos of old friends with a heavy dose of realism. Some went so far as to age portraits of celebrities as young people and compare these [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[813],"tags":[606,817],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":20834},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}