iRobot, the company that owns the Roomba vacuums, confirmed that gig workers outside the US shared intimate photos of unsuspecting users to social media. The vacuum cleaners use images to improve the robot vacuum cleaner’s computer vision.
in your house might be sending sensitive pictures of you to train artificial intelligence .
The images were shared on social media by gig workers in Venezuela, whose job it is to label audio, photo and video data to train the company’s train artificial intelligence. However, this data is passed over to low-cost contracted workers who handle everything from keeping harmful posts off social media to transcribing audio recordings designed to enhance voice assistants.
The images in question included a mix of everyday pictures from inside homes, including furniture and contained descriptive labels like ‘tv’, ‘plant_or_flower’ and ‘ceiling light’.iRobot works with Scale AI, a startup based in San Francisco that relies on gig workers to review and tag audio, photo and video data used to train artificial intelligence.
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