Why I Refused to Build a Web Scraper for My AI Facial Matching App

Building an AI facial matching app right now presents a massive ethical dilemma for developers. If you want to build a "find your doppelganger" tool, the easiest, fastest architectural route is obvious: spin up a Python script, hook into some open-source reverse-image APIs, and scrape the open web for massive datasets. It’s cheap, it’s fast, and it’s what almost everyone else is doing. But it is also a massive privacy nightmare.