Last Week in AI News #49 Subscribe for future emails here! Mini Briefs The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It Clearview AI has been in the news lately for its controversial facial recognition service, which it sells to law enforcement agencies mostly in the U.S. Its product is popular among the police because 1) Clearview has amassed a database of more than 3 billion public images of people’s faces from sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Venmo (this scraping violates those companies’ terms of use) and 2) it uses the latest advances from Big Ol' Neural Nets to perform the recognition, so the input image does not have to be taken perfectly head-on at eye level.
Skynet Today Last Week in AI News #49
Skynet Today Last Week in AI News #49
Skynet Today Last Week in AI News #49
Last Week in AI News #49 Subscribe for future emails here! Mini Briefs The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It Clearview AI has been in the news lately for its controversial facial recognition service, which it sells to law enforcement agencies mostly in the U.S. Its product is popular among the police because 1) Clearview has amassed a database of more than 3 billion public images of people’s faces from sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Venmo (this scraping violates those companies’ terms of use) and 2) it uses the latest advances from Big Ol' Neural Nets to perform the recognition, so the input image does not have to be taken perfectly head-on at eye level.