THIS NEW WEBSITE DISPLAYS YOUR ENTIRE ONLINE PHOTO HISTORY

Sun 13 April 2025:

A website is using AI to scrape and compile photos from the internet, revealing where and when they were posted. This has sparked widespread concern, with many labeling it “creepy” and “disturbing” due to its potential for misuse and invasion of privacy.

The site called PimEyes uses AI to hunt down every single photo of you ever posted on the internet. This mainly includes pictures posted on social media. To see your photos, you need to upload any picture of yourself and the website will search and fetch all the photos. There is room for error and it can sometimes also show photos of other people who closely resemble you. It can identify a younger version of the user and pull up years-old photos.

The World Wide web has been here for decades now. Social media took off with platforms like Yahoo Messenger and Hotmail before fully diversifying into sites that solely worked to connect people. This includes MySpace, Orkut, Facebook and many other social media platforms.

Several people got onto most of these sites but, over time moved onto other platforms and have probably forgotten about the older ones. This is where the website PimEyes can come in handy.

Every picture of you posted on any of these places can be fetched by the AI-based website PimEyes, letting you know about your digital presence. An upgraded version provides the user with links to each place the pictures appeared.

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People react to PimEyes

Netizens have mixed views about the website. While some say it is a good way to know where your pictures have been used without your knowledge, others think it is “disturbing” and a “stalker’s dream.”

Further, Gen Z are creeped out to see photos of themselves from when they were young, as some of them show them in embarrassing situations. This is one reason why parents are discouraged from uploading their kids’ photos on social media, as they can haunt them for life.

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