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Clarifai deletes 3M photos that OkCupid provided to teach facial recognition AI, report tells
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The AI platform Clarifai deleted 3 million photos that it says it got from OkCupid to train its facial recognition AI, .
Key facts
- Though this incident appears to have taken place 12 years ago, the FTC did not open an investigation until 2019, when a New York Times article about Clarifai mentioned that the company had used
- The FTC also alleged that since 2014, Match Group and OkCupid deliberately concealed this behavior and attempted to obstruct its investigation
- The AI platform Clarifai deleted 3 million photos that it says it got from OkCupid to train its facial recognition AI
- Per the FTC’s investigation, Clarifai asked OkCupid — whose executives had invested in the company — to share data in 2014
Summary
Per the FTC’s investigation, Clarifai asked OkCupid — whose executives had invested in the company — to share data in 2014. “We’re collecting data now and realized that OKCupid must have a HUGE amount of awesome data for this,” Clarifai founder and CEO Matthew Zeiler wrote in an email to OkCupid co-founder Maxwell Krohn, according to court documents reviewed by Reuters. Though this incident appears to have taken place 12 years ago, the FTC did not open an investigation until 2019, when a New York Times article about Clarifai mentioned that the company had used. The FTC and OkCupid, which is owned by Match Group, settled the lawsuit last month.