Feature request: cross reference user's photos with TinEye and Google Image search

[CobeyHS]

Idea is to determine if the user's pictures are genuine or "borrowed" from the net.

[phoebejaffe]

Although I love the technical solution to this, there are two issues -- one is privacy. I don't think users would want someone else's computer sending their image to google. And two, it seems like a waste of bandwidth, since every user would be checking every other user... there's no server that users can query or update, so it'd be super redundant. I think this is something that OkC should implement if they want, but probably not something on the front-end.

Also, for the majority of cases, it's pretty obvious when the profile is fake (not much text).

For now I'm closing this for now, but I'm up for hearing counterarguments. :)

[CobeyHS]

On the first issue: Posting one's pictures to OKC is giving up the expectation to privacy. Double if the user didn't choose to limit who can see their pictures (global vs OKC users only).

Second issue: Perhaps a one time check option? You pull a profile, it looks ok, but you want to know if the pics are real or not. Click the button, get a report back (positive or negative), the result is stored with the other data that was collected (poly, not poly, etc). You want to check again later, click the button again.

For what it's worth, TinEye and GIS are heavily used by the moderators. We see lots of legit profiles sporting fake pics, almost as many as fake profiles sporting fake pics.

[phoebejaffe]

Those are good points -- I'll reopen it as an enhancement!

[studgeek]

OKCupid++ does this, and seems to play well with this extension. I'll add the few times I have used it I have never had a hit.