I attended a top surveillance conference in Washington, a bizarre experience in which industry insiders lamented being under attack
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This misinformation narrative also came from Clearview AI, a company known for taking images of people and matching them with faces in billions of photos pulled from social-media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. During the conference, the company's CEO and cofounder, Hoan Ton-That, read from an August document titled"Facial Recognition Myths," which I later saw laying on a chair.
"Nearly every facial recognition platform exhibits demographic differences, but advanced AI-driven solutions, used by Clearview AI, are trained on a diverse dataset of ethnicities to mitigate racial bias," the document said, though no third party has tested and publicly validated Clearview's accuracy across ethnicities.I worked on at BuzzFeed News also revealed several false positive matches, exclusively on women and people of color.
In a slide titled"Dystopian Sci-Fi," the men showed posters for the movies"The Terminator,""RoboCop,""Blade Runner," and"Minority Report" and the TV show"Black Mirror." Ray said facial-recognition regulation happened in the"specific cultural context" of dystopian science fiction, and chided people who, he said, interpret science fiction literally.
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