Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Picasso Shows How to Foil NSA Facial Recognition

Picasso was way ahead of his time. For years I have heard people make fun of Picasso’s paintings of rearranged faces and ask why he would do such a thing and what use is it. Oh, but it has a great use: to avoid detection by internet facial recognition software!

Yes, simply follow Picasso’s lead and put every picture of yourself into Photoshop and then just rearrange all the features before posting it online; or if you’re feeling less adventurous, simply move your eyes around a little bit and maybe move your nose and mouth somewhat so as to make yourself unrecognizable to a computer.

See? Picasso was just trying to help us avoid Big Brother all along! (But he couldn’t just come out and tell us what he meant for fear of being placed on a terror watch list!)

Here’s what to do with your face in Photoshop: