Reminds me of the Clearview AI controversy[0].

I'm not diminishing the ethics debate, but it's crazy to me how easy it was for two non-technical rich dudes in a garage to build Clearview AI (And before vibe-coding!):

  1. scrape billions of faces from the internet
  2. `git clone` any off the shelf facial-recognition repo

It was just a matter of when.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_AI#History

▲ ngcc_hk 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Concerned but given the use can it be stopped ?

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motbus3 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yes. If one knows that someone has their identifiable data without consent it is a problem.

While they are pictures on the internet it is one thing, when you gather them all and put a label with a number then it is problematic.

Remember that FaceApp to make you older, younger etc? Imagine how much data those guys collected?

I know someone who submitted the face of a member of my family without consent. You could not even complain without agreeing with the TOS first

	▲	Aherontas 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Unfortunately we will see this kind of cases more and more with AI rise. I don't believe it is the only app that could do relevant labeled searching in faces etc.

▲ DrScientist 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Am I the only one that finds it amusing that conpanies like Google and Facebook sent Clearview legal letters complaining about scraping data from their sites?