Clarifai deletes 3 million photos that OkCupid provided to train facial recognition AI, report says
TL;DR
The photo deletion comes after an FTC settlement with Clarifai. The company had asked OkCupid — whose executives had invested in Clarifai — to share data in 2014, according to court documents. The photo deletion comes after an FTC settlement with Clarifai. The company had asked OkCupid — whose executives had invested in Clarifai — to share data in 2014, according to court documents.
Nauti's Take
Clarifai deleting the photos following the FTC settlement shows that regulatory pressure can work – a genuinely positive signal for accountability in AI training data practices. What the case also exposes is how casually personal data was traded in the early AI era, often through opaque investor relationships.
More skeletons likely remain in other datasets; regulators should keep looking.
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