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A Roomba recorded a lady on the bathroom. How did screenshots find yourself on Fb?
Within the fall of 2020, gig employees in Venezuela posted a collection of photos to on-line boards the place they discuss store. The photographs have been mundane, if generally 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 all the way down to mid-thigh.
The pictures 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 employees world wide to label knowledge used to coach synthetic intelligence.
In 2022, MIT Expertise Assessment obtained 15 screenshots of those non-public photographs, which had been posted to closed social media teams. The pictures converse to the rising observe of sharing doubtlessly delicate knowledge to coach algorithms. In addition they reveal a complete knowledge provide chain—and new factors the place private info might leak out—that few customers are even conscious of. Learn the complete story.
—Eileen Guo
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