Using FaceApp to Make You Look Old May Be Fun, but Experts Warn About Security Concerns

Using FaceApp to Make You Look Old May Be Fun, but Experts Warn About Security Concerns
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Hands up if you have used photo editor FaceApp to make yourself look older! If you are active on social media, you’re likely to stumble upon photos of an older version of your friends on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.

To show you what you'll look like as an old person, FaceApp uses artificial intelligence to edit and put a filter to a picture in your gallery of your iPhone or Andriod device. The images generated by the impressive AI facial recognition tool are so realistic that people all around the world, including celebrities, are flocking to use the smartphone app to see how they will look when they are old.