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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 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