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A Roomba recorded a girl on the bathroom. How did screenshots find yourself on Fb?
Within the fall of 2020, gig staff in Venezuela posted a collection of photos to on-line boards the place they discuss store. The pictures have been mundane, if typically intimate, family scenes—together with a very revealing shot of a younger girl in a lavender T-shirt sitting on the bathroom, her shorts pulled right down to mid-thigh.
The photographs weren’t taken by an individual, however by improvement variations of iRobot’s Roomba robotic vacuum, an organization now owned by Amazon. They have been then despatched to Scale AI, a startup that contracts staff all over the world to label knowledge used to coach synthetic intelligence.
In 2022, MIT Know-how Evaluation obtained 15 screenshots of those personal pictures, which had been posted to closed social media teams. The photographs communicate to the rising observe of sharing probably delicate knowledge to coach algorithms. Additionally they reveal an entire knowledge provide chain—and new factors the place private data may leak out—that few customers are even conscious of. Learn the complete story.
—Eileen Guo
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