THE IDEA
Here’s what you need to know.
Ask Claude to find every photo of you on the internet and the results can be a bit unsettling. It can surface a whole trail of photos you did not know existed. This runs in three prompts. First you teach Claude what you look like, then it searches your face across the web, then it writes the takedown requests for the sites you want to be gone from.
See the visual breakdown
- 1
Teach Claude your face
- 2
Reverse image search across the top tools
- 3
Draft the removal requests
Old profiles
Photos on accounts and sites you forgot you ever joined.
Tagged photos
Pictures other people posted with your face in them.
Scraped copies
Images lifted and reposted on sites you have never visited.
Public listings
Directories, work pages, and profiles that still show your photo.
PUT IT INTO PRACTICE
Follow the steps.
Tick off each step as you go. Your progress is saved on this browser.
- STEP 01
Open Claude and upload a clear selfie. Ask it to list every feature that makes you recognizable, so it has a full description to work from.
Analyze this photo and list every specific feature that makes me recognizable, so you can identify me anywhere online.
- STEP 02
Start a Cowork session (Claude's agent mode) and let it run your face through the top reverse image search tools. It comes back with a link to every place you appear.
Using my selfie and everything you know about me, reverse image search my face across the top tools and find every place I appear online. Give me a link to each one.
- STEP 03
Go through the list and pick the ones you want taken down. Have Claude write a custom removal request for each site so you are not writing them one by one.
Now write me custom removal requests for each of these sites to get my photos taken down.
A FEW THINGS THAT HELP
Get more out of it.
- Cowork is Claude's agent mode. It opens a browser and searches for you. It needs to be enabled on your plan.
- Use a clear, recent selfie with your face well lit. The better the photo, the better the matches.
- You do not have to remove everything. Keep the photos you are happy with and only request takedowns for the ones you are not.
- Only search your own face. Do not run this on other people.
- Some sites ignore the first request. Follow up, and recheck later to see if the photos come back.