FaceApp Russian app driving the network crazy

His name is FaceApp and progressively becoming this summer's trend. The application has “infected” people known (VIP) and ordinary ones, taking Facebook and Instagrams with photos that see us aging through artificial intelligence shock.

Face transformation is realistic enough as it seems to be natural. No one resists the temptation to look into the picture of what it will be like to grow old.

In the face of this summer storm, however, there are technological and data stories that most users do not know about. Let's analyze...

FaceApp works first downloading the app. Just take a picture and select it through the app. Then, in a few seconds, the app allows you to choose what you're going to do with the picture, get old, or get younger. Most Choose old age

There are millions of posts scattered these days. Many effects that can be applied to the photo are paid and tariffs range from 3.99 euros to those who choose a monthly subscription, 19.99 euros for annual subscription and 43.99 euros for permanent subscription.

Privacy

Based on FaceApp, it says, there are artificial intelligence algorithms. We've developed a new technology that allows real modification of your image to the photo” has explained founder and leader Yaroslav Goncharov.

The element that separates us from others is photorealism. Once the filter is applied, it's your picture again. Other applications deliberately change the image in a funny way but it is no longer a real picture”

Russia

Many tend to believe that FaceApp is owned by Facebook or perhaps by Instagram (even though it would be the same). But if we analyze the details, it is revealed that the app was launched in January 2017 by the Wireless Lab, a Russian company with headquarters in St Petersburg, founded by Yaroslav Goncharov.

FaceApp's Facebook page opened on January 27, 2017, and today it numbers more than 310 thousand followers. And from the section of the website, it's taught that its administrators are 4, 3 Russians and 1 Ukrainian.

It is now evident that this app is closely linked to Russia. And I have to underline that after the game, there are serious institutions regarding privacy. The application section dedicated to using information reads that the app “can share the content and information of users with companies that are part of the FaceApp” society group.