PimEyes was accused of making it distrubingly easy to find 'potentially explicit' photographs of children in its search engine results, raising fears about privacy and its use by stalkers and predators.

An investigation by The Intercept using AI-generated photos of children found that PimEyes allowed anyone to search for images of kids scraped from across the internet, including from charity group and educational websites, some of which provided their personal details. 

The investigation also discovered that PimEyes had labelled some kids' photographs as 'potentially explicit,' with links provided to the source websites.

PimEyes says that it is only meant to be used for self-searches and is 'not intended for the surveillance of others.' But it allows subscribers to search up to 25 times per day. 

PimEyes CEO Giorgi Gobronidze responded by claiming that many of PimEyes’s subscribers are women and girls searching for revenge porn images of themselves.