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What Happens When Every Face Is Searchable

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A grid of eight stylized side‑profile portraits of the same man on a black background, each portrait rendered with different experimental textures and lighting — halftone dots, colored overlays, contour lines, double exposures and x‑ray‑like highlights — creating a varied, abstract study of the face.

In February, a Los Angeles woman discovered that her face was being used as bait.

A friend sent her a TikTok video showing what appeared to be her Tinder profile. The clip was part of a viral “cheater test” trend where creators upload someone’s photo to a site called Cheaterbuster and film the results.

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