The results: I wasn't impressed with the results, it seemed like I could have done better using some OpenCV and first principle algorithms. The examples they give are excellent, but when trying them they are awful.

The viruses: I didn't see all these viruses people were talking about, the software worked "as intended" for me without the redirects. There was no advertising on the page either... I run with uBlock Origin in Chromium.

The dataset: Where do these images come from? These seem like the sorts of pictures that might be uploaded to some older social media website, like Bebo or something.

2 cents: Personally I would like to try and do some work with a dataset that has a 1:1 mapping of person to character, but that would require artists and quite a bit of money. I was thinking that you could build out such a database for free by randomly matching anime characters and real pictures together and have a human rate closeness - then train a network based on these ratings.