About AnimalFace AI

AnimalFace AI is an independent website with one simple product and one simple promise: a free animal face test that runs entirely inside your own browser, so your photo never leaves your device — plus an editorial blog that treats the culture around face types with genuine curiosity and honesty. This page explains who we are, why the site exists, how the test was built, and the standards every published article has to meet.

Why This Site Exists

The animal face test — sorting faces into puppy, cat, fox, and other archetypes — is one of the most beloved social games to come out of Korean pop culture, and it has spread across the world through K-pop fandom and social media. But when we surveyed the tests available online, almost every one required uploading your photo to someone's server, and almost none explained the rich cultural history behind the game or was honest about what an AI result can and cannot mean.

We built AnimalFace AI to fix all three problems at once:

• A test that respects your privacy by architecture. The AI model downloads into your browser and runs there. Your photo is never uploaded, stored, or seen by us — not as a policy choice that could change, but as a technical design that cannot silently be reversed.
• An editorial library that takes the subject seriously. The Animal Face Blog covers each of the ten archetypes in depth, plus the history of face reading from ancient physiognomy to Korean gwansang, the psychology of first impressions, compatibility culture, and the technology behind browser-based AI.
• Honesty about what this is. The test is entertainment about facial impressions — what a face communicates to observers — not a scientific measurement of personality. We say this everywhere, prominently, including in a dedicated article on the limits and ethics of face AI.

Who Runs AnimalFace AI

AnimalFace AI is built and maintained by a small independent team — a developer-led project rather than a media company. The same people who trained the model write and edit the blog under the shared byline "AnimalFace AI Editorial Team." We are personality-test enthusiasts and long-time followers of Korean pop culture, and the site is our attempt to build the version of this test we wanted to use ourselves.

We are not affiliated with any entertainment agency, beauty brand, or data broker. The site's only revenue is standard display advertising on content pages, which never affects results and never requires an account or any personal data to use the test.

How the Test Was Built

The classifier behind the test is an image classification model trained with Google's Teachable Machine platform, using transfer learning on top of the MobileNet architecture. It was trained on a curated dataset of portrait images labeled according to the ten impression archetypes of the animal face framework: dog, cat, fox, rabbit, bear, deer, hamster, wolf, dinosaur, and chick.

At test time, the model runs in your browser through TensorFlow.js, Google's open-source machine learning library for JavaScript. Your photo is loaded into browser memory, scored against the ten learned patterns, and the confidence percentages are displayed — all locally. No image data is transmitted at any point, which you can verify with your browser's network inspector. The full technical story is in our explainer, How Browser-Based AI Face Analysis Actually Works.

Our Editorial Standards

Every article on the Animal Face Blog is written and reviewed by the editorial team against the same rules:

• Original writing, always. Every article is written from scratch for this site. Nothing is scraped, spun, or republished from elsewhere.
• Culture reported as culture, science reported as science. When we describe what the fox archetype means, we are reporting a pop-culture framework and we say so. When we cite psychology — first-impression research, the baby-schema effect — we describe actual published findings and their limits.
• No personality claims from faces. A century of research finds faces do not reveal character, so our articles describe how archetypes are perceived, never what your features prove about you.
• Respect for the tradition. Korean face-reading culture, from historical gwansang to modern fan vocabulary, is treated as a subject worth explaining accurately, not exotic decoration.
• Corrections welcome. If you find an error in any article, tell us through the contact page and we will review and fix it.

Privacy, Advertising, and Independence

The test requires no account and collects no photos. For visitors who optionally create an account to save results or comment, we store only the minimum described in our Privacy Policy. Display advertising appears only on content pages — never wrapped around empty screens — and advertisers have no influence on test results or editorial content. We do not sell user data, and there is nothing to sell from the test itself: the photos never reach us.

Contact

Questions, corrections, feedback, or partnership ideas are all welcome. Reach us through the contact page or the partnership form on the home page, and we typically respond within 3–5 business days.