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PimEyes's Facial Recognition AI Allegedly Lacked Safeguards to Prevent Itself from Being Abused
PimEyes offered its subscription-based AI service to anyone in the public to search for matching facial images across the internet, which critics said lacked public oversight and government rules to prevent itself from misuse such as stalking women.
- Date it happened
- 2017-01-01
- Organisation involved
- PimEyes
- Product, system or model
- PimEyes is a face-searching tool that "can scan through more than 900 million images from across the Internet and find matches with startling accuracy." It uses bots known as "spiders" to crawl the We
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