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The facial recognition company Clearview AI is telling investors it is on track to have 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year, enough to ensure "almost everyone in the world will be identifiable," according to a financial presentation from December obtained by The Washington Post.
Those images — equivalent to 14 photos for each of the 7 billion people on Earth — would help power a surveillance system that has been used for arrests and criminal investigations by thousands of law enforcement and government agencies around the world.
And the company wants to expand beyond scanning faces for the police, saying in the presentation that it could monitor "gig economy" workers and is researching a number of new technologies that could identify someone based on how they walk, detect their location from a photo or scan their fingerprints from afar.
The 55-page "pitch deck," the contents of which have not been reported previously, reveals surprising details about how the company, whose work already is controversial, is positioning itself for a major expansion, funded in large part by government contracts and the taxpayers the system would be used to monitor.
The document was made for fundraising purposes, and it is unclear how realistic its goals might be. The company said that its "index of faces" has grown from 3 billion images to more than 10 billion since early 2020 and that its data collection system now ingests 1.5 billion images a month.
It's a long-format story that is very-well-supported and worth reading in its entirety.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday February 18 2022, @08:07PM (9 children)
Any stories that I process which are rejected are usually returned to the submitter (where known) with a recommendation that they put them in their journal. I give the same advice to aristarchus. If he didn't think that they were worth publishing then at least on that point we will agree with him.
I have been through all submissions from aristarchus back to June 2020 and there are no submissions relating to Clearview in that list. That is 500 submission which is all that his submissions pages display. His submission acceptance rate is around 13%.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 19 2022, @12:38AM (8 children)
2-second search of the site, for Clearview, brings up https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/02/26/1944236 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 19 2022, @12:42AM (4 children)
Where there is a comment linking to this, rejected submission? https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=38976 [soylentnews.org] Evidently, rejected submissions do not go away.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday February 19 2022, @02:29AM (3 children)
The rejection goes directly to the submitter automatically by Admin to User message. It isn't stored as part of the submission because it is not part of the submission.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 22 2022, @02:36AM (2 children)
So why does the header on this rejected submission say it is a rejected submission?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday February 22 2022, @06:42AM
Because I fed the single link that you must have spent ages typing into upstart. Upstart just extracts the story not the rubbish that we do not want (adverts, links to other news items, your editorialising of the content etc). The editor can feed the submitters name into a special HTML intro field and it will credit that account with the karma. Guess what? - we couldn't find GhostOfAristarchus so there was nothing to paste into that field. And you have spent so much time on IRC telling us that the GhostOfAristarchus is NOT the same as aristarchus, so I took you at your word and ignored the spurious username.
upstart then produced the 'submission' that we actually used. Your original major effort to type that link remained in the submission queue. The only way to remove it is to delete it. So I did and it is marked as rejected.
I told you how to do it when you were making the submission but you insist on trying to game a system that you obviously do not understand. Hence your attempt led to failure. If you want to be credited with the karma, log in and use the submissions page - but in your case you have managed to earn yourself a ban so currently cannot even do that. You have been told that you may continue to use the site but only as an AC. You do not get karma as an AC. Please think before you do silly things and then use that failed attempt to complain that the site isn't set up to allow you to abuse it. Your situation is one of your own making.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday February 22 2022, @06:51AM
Which header? If I click on the link you provided it doesn't mention 'Rejected'. Perhaps you are looking at it elsewhere?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday February 19 2022, @02:57AM (2 children)
I clearly wrote that I checked back through Ari's submissions as far as June of 2020. You have provided a submission link from February 2020. There is no conflict in the dates and both of our statements are true.
If you read the submission you can probably see why it was rejected. The report is not unbiased and neutral, but goes on to describe an individual as "alt-right provocateur and anti-semite", another who is a "former aid to President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Guliani" and "numerous other alt-right and white supremacist figures". Submissions from aristarchus do tend to support his political beliefs rather than report the facts - which is why I usually suggest that he puts them in his journal.
I can find 19 previous stories about Clearview that have been posted on this site which were NOT submitted by aristarchus (i.e. not rejected submissions but front page stories). You didn't mention any of them. The reporting has been well covered by SN.
If the submission was so easy to find why were we asked to 'dig out' his previous submissions? Please do your own work in future.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 19 2022, @10:42AM (1 child)
So why is SN covering up the fact that Clearview is run by the alt-right? Inquiring minds (and faces) want to know!
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday February 19 2022, @11:07AM