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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 staff in Venezuela posted a sequence of photographs to on-line boards the place they speak store. The pictures have been mundane, if generally intimate, family scenes—together with a very revealing shot of a younger lady in a lavender T-shirt sitting on the bathroom, her shorts pulled right 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 staff all over the world to label knowledge used to coach synthetic intelligence.
In 2022, MIT Know-how Evaluation obtained 15 screenshots of those non-public pictures, which had been posted to closed social media teams. The pictures converse to the rising apply of sharing probably delicate knowledge to coach algorithms. In addition they reveal a complete knowledge provide chain—and new factors the place private data may leak out—that few shoppers are even conscious of. Learn the total story.
—Eileen Guo
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