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Of course the creator is going to tout the most morally upstanding use of his app. If it genuinely helps human trafficking victims, then that's another story, but from this quote it just seems like he has some vague hope about it.
A tech startup with vague likely unrealistic hopes? What are the chances?
Yeah that sounds so much like post-hoc justification that I'm seriously surprised that it's being swallowed by anyone.
I mean, great if it DOES help with such a terrible problem, it's just I have seen this thing being talked about before and it's NEVER been discussed in terms of helping trafficking victims. This is the first I've heard of it. Almost every time you see this kind of narrative being discussed it's either 99% of the time a bunch of sweaty incels online whinging about how women aren't really pretty and just want to trap guys or some other dom/sub kink fantasy nonsense to validate their depression and self-loathing, OR about 1% of the time it's an actual empowering discussion talking about unfair hollywood beauty standards.
I mean ageing technology (what the person might look like after 5 years etc) was also created for human trafficking victims, and I haven't seen it really being talked about in many years now since it came out. Seems weird to base something on whether or not you've heard of it.
If the family doesn't have a recent picture of the person without makeup, then yeah, this would be useful, since people can look pretty different without makeup. I'm the only one who has recent pictures of my wife without makeup for example, her friends and parents only have pictures of her with makeup since she normally does some when meeting them. She's also half Chinese, so depending on how she decides to do her make up, can look way more asian or barely asian at all. If I didn't have those pictures and something happened, the make-up pictures wouldn't be as useful in searching for her.
I think this is more about whether or not the creator was honest when they claim that's why they created the app and it looks like many people here, myself included, are dubious about that being his intention and not just a justification.