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Simon Willison releases Photo Scrubber, a local face-blurring tool
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On September 30, 2026, Simon Willison released Photo Scrubber, an experimental tool that automatically detects and blurs faces and strips photo metadata. Built with GPT-6 Astra, it is based on Google's MediaPipe C++ library, compiled to WebAssembly via @mediapipe/tasks-vision, and uses the BlazeFace face detection model. All processing happens locally, with no photo uploads.
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Sep 30
- Simon WillisonPhoto Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal
Simon Willison 用 GPT-6 Astra 构建了实验性工具 Photo Scrubber，可自动识别人脸并模糊处理。该工具基于 Google 的 MediaPipe C++ 库，通过 @mediapipe/tasks-vision 编译为 WebAssembly，并使用 BlazeFace 人脸检测模型，全程在本地运行。
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