Tool: Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal
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29th September 2026
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Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal
I took a photograph of some protesters, then thought about how I don't like sharing photographs of strangers with identifiable faces. I had GPT-6 Astra build this experimental tool that would identify faces and automatically blur them out.
It uses Google's MediaPipe C++ library, compiled to WebAssembly via @mediapipe/tasks-vision, plus the BlazeFace face detection model.
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