Jun 15, 2017Confirmed
Clearview AI Algorithm Built on Photos Scraped from Social Media Profiles without Consent
Rogue: Caused harmAI loose in the worldData exfiltrationDERIVED
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Face-matching algorithm by Clearview AI was built using scraped images from social media sites such as Instagram and Facebook without user consent, violating social media site policies, and allegedly privacy regulations.
What this means for youPhotos you posted publicly may have been collected to train face-recognition tools without your permission. At work and in government, this raises questions about consent and whether firms followed site rules and privacy laws.
Sources
- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/267
Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.
Source data license: CC BY-SA 4.0 (database). Report contents keep their own rights; reports.text, submissions, images and videos are excluded from the data license.
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