Renewed the domain stop-synthetic-filth.org till Thursday 2032-01-15, because this cause, regardless of how highly unpopular, is necessary for the survival of humanity and me too.
Gandi.net is a top notch operation so they processed the renewal speedily.
That even somebody would remember how we were before the synthetic human-like fakes showed up would be highly desirable.
Recently discovered FacePinPoint.com, a brainchild of Mr. Lionel Hagege. It is unfortunately now closed. It was active 2017-2021.
Humanity really needs this, preferably purveyed as a public good.
Wrote an article on it, transcluded below with RDP Wiki Embed WordPress plugin. Article cache is updated only daily, so the wiki may have a newer version.
Facepinpoint Inc. was founded on Friday 2017-08-11, registered in Delaware, but their office was in Beverly Hills.[3]
The service officially launched on Saturday 2017-10-28[4] and to date they have indexed over 10 million faces from X-rated sites and blogs[5]. FacePinPoint.com employed a "face recognition two-factor authentication process"[6] to stop anyone running a search with somebody else's facial features.
Very unfortunately Facepinpoint Inc. filed for surrender on Friday 2021-06-11.[7]
As of Dec 2021 their website is still up with domain name expiry date of 2023-12-04, but the AI service is no longer available, registrations are closed and their contact form doesn't work anymore.
FacePinPoint.com used to do the same thing as Adequate Porn Watcher AI (concept) has been planned to do: To look at mind boggling amounts of pornography in order to protect its users from their likeness being used/shown somewhere where it is not supposed to be.
2022-02-22 - 2022-02-28 - We exchanged some messages with Mr. Hagege. I got some information to him that I thought he really should know and also got a very hope-bearing answer to my question about the IP: Mr. Hagege owns it after the dissolution of the company in 2021 and he would be interested in getting at it again, but only if sufficient financing would be supplied.
2022-02-21 - 2nd contact - I got another free month of LinkedIn pro and sent LinkedIn mail to Mr. Hagege, explaining the pressing need for FacePinPoint.com to make a return, as a public good. Hoping to get an answer.
2021-12-18 - first contact - I managed to reach someone at FacePinPoint via their Facebook chat and they told me that they could not find funding and needed to shut shop.
Their email does not seem to be working as both my emails (info@ and webmaster@) bounced with Relay access denied (in reply to RCPT TO command).
The domain is paid until Wednesday 14 March 2029, so much for my “certainty” that nothing will show up that that will be so massive in scale that a change of domain is needed i.e. Adequate Porn Watcher AI.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA has been active in the field of countering synthetic fake videos for longer than the public has been aware of the problems existing.