How Loti AI fights likeness infringement and digital impersonation with Weaviate

Summary

Loti AI partnered with Weaviate to power their digital identity protection platform, resulting in significant time savings for their data science team, reliable performance at multi-billion vector scale, and the ability to focus on ambitious growth plans rather than managing infrastructure.

Challenge

Loti AI faces the challenge of scanning massive amounts of digital content to identify and remove unauthorized materials featuring their clients, which include public figures and high profile celebrities. "Simply put, the more internet we scan, the better we can protect our customers," explains Dr. Hirak Chhatbar, Co-founder and CTO at Loti AI.

The team initially built the platform using another vector database. They discovered that their Director of Data Science had to perform routine maintenance to ensure platform stability, taking away valuable time from his core job function. To make sure this work did not pile up as Loti AI continued to grow, a change was required. “I need peace of mind. When we are scaling our systems, I don't want to worry about our vector database as it serves as a core foundation supporting all our services,” noted Chhatbar.

• A scalable solution that could handle tens of billions of vectors
• Minimal maintenance overhead to free up their data science team
• Reliability for their critical operations of finding and removing unauthorized content
• Cost-effective pricing that would support their growing operations

Why Loti chose Weaviate

After evaluating their options, Loti AI chose Weaviate for several reasons:

• No longer slowed down by database maintenance, the team could focus on expanding product functionality.
• Weaviate’s scalability supports their massive, growing dataset.
• Loti AI experiences reliable performance even as they process 120 - 140 million images daily.
• Weaviate’s team mitigated migration risks and quickly resolved initial challenges.
• Loti AI can focus on performance, massive scale and the customer experience, knowing they have a predictable, cost-effective solution in hand.

“Weaviate's team was really great and solved every bottleneck we faced during our migration. Now, I never worry about our vector database, even with 9 billion vectors. They've delivered maintenance and cost advantages, allowing us to focus on scaling our systems without concern,” said Chhatbar.

What's Next?

Loti AI continues to expand their operations with plans to increase their daily scanning capacity to 150 million images and videos per day. With Weaviate handling their vector database needs, they can focus on this growth without worrying about database scalability or maintenance.

The company is also strengthening its existing partnerships with social media platforms like TikTok, Meta, and Pinterest to expedite takedown requests, making their service even more effective for their high-profile clients.