IBM Used Creative Commons Photos from Flickr to Train AI Facial Recognition

By this point we really shouldn’t be surprised when privacy is disregarded. It’s become more than apparent that businesses don’t feel the need to protect our privacy. Nevertheless, photographers are surprised that IBM stretched the Creative Commons license of photos they posted to Flickr to train their artificial intelligence facial-recognition systems. IBM Used Flickr’s CC Photos There’s no other way to look at this other than a company taking liberties that no one expected them to. When you share a photo under a Creative Commons license you have certain expectations, and those expectations don’t include IBM using them to develop technology. Flickr is one of… Read more

Posted by / March 13, 2019
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