FaceApp: the New App Amidst the Storm of Controversies
The New
Free Face Editing App, FaceApp, poses security concerns. Is it? Read on to Find
Out!
#Faceappchallenge is the new maniac among the smart-phone users that has taken over
almost all the social-media platforms. The challenge revolves around installing
a free face editing app named Faceapp,
applying one of its features to age your face digitally & post them on
social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp.
If you have
scrolled your social-media accounts recently, you must have observed your
friends/relatives uploading pictures of their older & younger self.
This new
app cherished immense popularity among the Android & iOS Users last week.
It transcended Apple App Store’s top charts as the most downloaded app, leaving
behind Whatsapp & Facebook. The number of users of this new face app has crossed
over 80 millions.
Faceapp’s
CEO, Yaroslav Goncharov was overwhelmed with joy to announce the success this face
filter app achieved in such a short span. Prompted with the success, Yaroslav
posted on Facebook: “Change, it’s nice”.
What Is FaceApp?
Developed
in 2017 by Wireless Lab, a Russia-based company, FaceApp is a funny face app
that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to modify your images that you upload to
the app. The app enables you to age yourself, swap gender & transform
yourself in to a hit man (a bald version of yourself).
During the
year of its launch, this face exchange app faced wide reproof for incorporating
“racist” selfie-filters – that facilitated the users to brighten their skin tones.
Another
storm of outrage was kindled against FaceApp a few months later, after it
launched an array of “ethnicity filters”. The ethnicity filters allowed users
to modify their images to appear “Asian”, “India” or “black”.
Though
these features were introduced with good intentions, people took them to the
road leading to racism.
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