AI Disclosure
Which parts of FindFace are automated, which are not, and what a match does and does not prove.
No language model reads or writes your result
FindFace does not use a generative model anywhere in a search. Nothing summarises your result, infers who a person is, or writes a description of what was found. What you see is the set of pages the visual-search provider returned, with the scores it returned them with.
What is automated
- Face detection in your browser. A face-detection model runs on your device to find the face and produce a standardized crop. The photo does not leave your device for this step.
- A server-side check that the crop really contains a face, so an image that cannot be searched is rejected before it costs you anything.
- Visual similarity search by a third-party provider, which compares the crop against its index of public web pages and returns candidates with a similarity score.
- A fixed mapping from that score to the wording you see — strong, likely, possible, or low-confidence. The thresholds are configured constants, not a judgement made per result.
What automation cannot tell you
A high similarity score means two images look alike to a model. It is not identification. Look-alikes, siblings, edited or generated images, and photographs of photographs all produce high scores. An empty result does not mean a photo is unused — it means this provider’s index did not contain a match it could find.
Face-similarity systems do not perform equally on every face. Accuracy varies with lighting, angle, age, occlusion, and image quality, and published research consistently finds uneven error rates across demographic groups. Treat a result as a lead to check, never as a verdict.
How to use a result
Open the source page and read the context yourself. Judge whether the page supports what you think it shows. Do not publish an accusation, contact anyone, or make a decision about a person’s job, housing, credit, or safety on the strength of a visual match — the Acceptable Use Policy prohibits those uses.
Data boundaries
The crop is sent to the visual-search provider because that is what performs the search; the original photo never is. Crops are deleted once the search completes and are never kept beyond 24 hours, and results are deleted after 30 days. Deleting a search removes its crop, its results, and its history entry immediately. The Privacy Policy names every provider involved.