simonwillison.nettoolPhoto Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal
Simon Willison built an experimental local-only photo tool that detects faces and automatically blurs them to protect the identity of strangers (e.g. protesters) photographed in public, also stripping metadata. It runs entirely client-side using Google's MediaPipe compiled to WebAssembly via @mediapipe/tasks-vision, with the BlazeFace model for face detection, and was built with help from GPT-6 Astra.
TL;DR A local, browser-based face-blur and metadata-scrubbing tool built with MediaPipe/BlazeFace, vibe-coded by Simon Willison using GPT-6 Astra.
Organisations named here
- Simon Willison
Technologies named here
- GPT-6 Astra
- MediaPipe
- @mediapipe/tasks-vision
- BlazeFace
- WebAssembly
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