Touchwood: my feeds only unlock after an open-weight model sees me outside

Описание и применение

Touchwood заставляет пользователей выходить на улицу, чтобы получить временный доступ к соцсетям, используя автономную модель CLIP для проверки фотографий.

Задача

Users spend excessive time on doomscroll sites; need a way to enforce outdoor activity before accessing feeds.

Результат

Touchwood successfully enforces outdoor activity before allowing access to feeds, using on‑device vision to validate photos and a lightweight PWA for quests.

Рабочий процесс

• Install the Touchwood browser extension to block feeds.
• Open the Touchwood PWA on a phone and tap "Find me a quest".
• The app selects a nearby real place from OpenStreetMap and provides walking directions.
• Walk to the location; the app gives compass guidance and buzzes upon arrival.
• Take a photo of the target (e.g., water).
• The on‑device CLIP ViT‑B/32 model checks the photo for outdoors and target presence.
• If both checks pass, the app generates a one‑time 6‑digit code.
• Enter the code on the blocked page to unlock feeds for 30 minutes.
• After the period, the feeds lock again.
• Repeat as desired.

Доказательства

A browser extension blocks the sites I lose hours to. When I hit one, I don't get a guilt-trip timer. I get a quest.

Источник

When I arrive, it buzzes and chimes. I take the photo, and an open-weight vision model running on the phone checks two things: am I actually outdoors, and is that actually water?

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The app works on its own: quests, the on-device photo check, the journal, streaks and stamps. The browser extension adds the lock, and the 6-digit code from a finished quest unlocks it.

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