YouTube AI wrongfully flags horror short “Show for Children” as suitable for children

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 15:57:26 +0000

“Show for Children” is most definitely not to be shown to children.

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Microsoft backs off facial recognition analysis, but big questions remain

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Microsoft is backing away from its public support for some AI-driven features, including facial recognition, and acknowledging the discrimination and accuracy issues these offerings create. But the company had years to fix the problems and didn’t. That’s akin to a car manufacturer recalling a vehicle rather than fixing it.

Despite concerns that facial recognition technology can be discriminatory, the real issue is that results are inaccurate. (The discriminatory argument plays a role, though, due to the assumptions Microsoft developers made when crafting these apps.)

Let’s start with what Microsoft did and said. Sarah Bird, the principal group product manager for Microsoft’s Azure AI, summed up the pullback last month in a Microsoft blog

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Pegasus spyware found on UK government office phone

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:32:28 +0000

The NSO Group’s flagship spyware was found on a device in 10 Downing Street’s network.

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Huge flaw found in how facial features are measured from images

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:48:02 +0000

It has to do with optics: faces appear to flatten out as we get further away. Our brains compensate, but AI-run facial recognition doesn’t.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/A15DxfJxLcc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:08:19 +0000

Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/UEh1lsdY7KE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Self-driving car dataset missing labels for pedestrians, cyclists

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:10:23 +0000

Udacity Dataset 2, used to train thousands of engineers, contained thousands of unlabeled vehicles and hundreds of unlabeled pedestrians.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/O3azSOGnuHw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:30:03 +0000

It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/X7rOITrf5_c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:51:21 +0000

A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/9Wtt8BCE-R8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Tinder to get panic button, catfish-fighting facial recognition

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:28:05 +0000

It’s both a genius move to protect from assault and fraud and a personal data grab.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/knmm8T6klTY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Deepfakes laws and proposals flood US

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:59:05 +0000

In a rare example of legislative haste, roughly one dozen state and federal bills were introduced in the past 12 months to regulate deepfakes, the relatively modern technology that some fear could upend democracy.

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