Friday, 6 March 2020
After scraping the web for billions of our photos, making dubious claims of accuracy, and marketing its software to countries with authoritarian regimes, Clearview AI has somehow reached yet another new frontier in dystopian facial recognition. According to the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill, America’s elites have been using the software as a plaything. They include billionaire businessmen finding out who their daughters were dating, the kids of Texan investors checking out who else they look like — and potentially actor-turned venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher. “I have an app in my phone in my pocket right now. It’s like a…
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