Development of Clearview AI's Facial Search Engine

Juan Tontat, the co-founder of Clearview AI, built a powerful facial search engine by leveraging AI technology and scraping billions of photos from various public websites. He started by collecting facial images from unconventional sources like Venmo and LinkedIn using a scraper tool. The technology advanced significantly with the emergence of machine learning and neural networks, allowing the system to recognize faces accurately, even with different angles and attributes. This innovative approach revolutionized facial recognition by providing a vast database of faces to train the algorithm, ultimately enabling the search engine to link faces to online identities.