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Clarifai deletes 3 million photos that OkCupid provided to train facial recognition AI, report says
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Clarifay has removed three million photos that OkCupid supplied for training its facial-recognition system, along with the AI models that were built from that data. The deletion follows a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over alleged privacy violations related to the use of those images.
Written from all 4 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- The Next Web·Clarifai says it deleted 3 million OkCupid user photos and the facial-recognition models trained on them
- TechCrunch·Clarifai deletes 3 million photos that OkCupid provided to train facial recognition AI, report says
- TechMeme·Clarifai says it has deleted 3M OkCupid user photos and facial-recognition models trained on them after the US FTC settled with OkCupid over privacy violations (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
- Engadget·AI company deletes the 3 million OKCupid photos it used for facial recognition training
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