I ran some of my friends through this. One person had 200+ photos used by IBM. https://t.co/0lCTtn5bD2

— Leah Jones (@ChicagoLeah) March 13, 2019

Earlier this year IBM released a dataset of 1 million photos of people's faces designed to reduce bias in facial recognition software. I was surprised that the pictures were taken from Flickr & so investigated the origins of facial recognition datasets https://t.co/FN3jSxIwxP

— Olivia Solon (@oliviasolon) March 12, 2019

IBM is using 14 of my photos. IBM says people can opt out, but is making it impossible to do so. Thanks @oliviasolon for this story. Facial Recognition is a big big ethical issue these days--Tomorrow's episode of @ShouldThisExist is on this very topic! https://t.co/thDwspiWP9

— Caterina Fake (@Caterina) March 13, 2019

IBM is using fifteen images of mine in their facial recognition nonsense in direct violation of my @creativecommons license (no attribution, no share-alike) and they need to stop. I have written them an email opting out. Watch this space. https://t.co/n42jSU9r4i

— jessamyn west (@jessamyn) March 12, 2019

Face recognition databases need a lot of faces so this one scraped Flickr. Love when public party pics get used to build tools for our future dystopia. Thanks to @oliviasolon, you can check to see if your account was included: https://t.co/Ot7yzG7ykk

— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) March 12, 2019

Universities used to pay people to come into the lab, get their written consent & have their photos taken for facial recognition datasets, but when the internet exploded they just scraped the pics from social media https://t.co/FN3jSxIwxP

— Olivia Solon (@oliviasolon) March 12, 2019

If you are in a photo that has been uploaded to Flickr, IBM may have used your face to train facial recognition technology that could eventually be used to surveil you.

Nearly a million photos were scraped from Flickr to do so. https://t.co/gvA7ABnNei #surveillance

— The Tor Project (@torproject) March 13, 2019

This is an interesting "frontier problem" of machine learning datasets. As an erstwhile creative commons contributors (Mediawiki, Flickr), existing CC licensing does not account for my rights when my images are being used to train ML models. So, 1/2 https://t.co/5IKdt5DBV9

— multi-culti (@tetisheri) March 13, 2019

A reminder that people licensing their images under a CC license DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU WANT WITH THEM. There are legal requirements associated with them (attribution, sharealike here) and social expectations. This is some stuff right here. https://t.co/Mew6xxE9Gj

— Billy Meinke-Lau (@billymeinke) March 13, 2019

We spent decades splashing our face across the internet and now it's been used to train facial recognition algorithms which could be among the most powerful tools of oppression and state control ever created and it's too late to take any of it back. https://t.co/ofja3ygp3t

— Christopher Mims ? (@mims) March 12, 2019

"it’s almost impossible to get photos removed. IBM requires [...] links to photos they want removed, but the company has not publicly shared the list of Flickr users and photos included in the dataset, so there is no easy way of finding out whose photos are included." https://t.co/B1Ol373OZE

— Jack Poulson (@supernodal) March 12, 2019

25 of my photos on @Flickr were scraped by @IBM without my knowledge or permission for facial recognition purposes, including one of a friend's young daughter. Thanks to @oliviasolon for diving into this so thoroughly. https://t.co/ERV4tHF3Cb

— Mark H. Anbinder (@mhaithaca) March 12, 2019

Ever used @Flickr? Well, the skin tone and “geometry” of the faces in your photos are being used to develop facial recognition technology. I’m guessing you won’t be receiving royalties for your photography. Check if your photos were used through @NBCNews. https://t.co/41nmDQjnkH

— Rohit Chopra (@chopraftc) March 12, 2019

Flickr co-founder ? https://t.co/MIbEzlshqI

— John Paczkowski (@JohnPaczkowski) March 13, 2019

since some people seem to be getting re-interested in this topic... the COCO dataset is widely used and suffers from this lack of adherence to the CC license terms on the images they use. https://t.co/Y2oFXu2oWA https://t.co/bs6xpAKJp0

— micah elizabeth scott (@scanlime) March 13, 2019

You know whose face is in this facial recognition database distributed by Flickr and IBM? Mine. (And my brother’s. And my wife’s.)

How did I find out? From @oliviasolon’s (Hiya, boss!) killer story.https://t.co/FFVT6obuEK

— Cyrus Farivar (@cfarivar) March 12, 2019

인공지능 학습문제도 자식교육과 마찬가지라서, 성과가 지진할 때 부모로서 무리를 하고 싶은 마음이 발동되나 봅니다. 윤리 문제가 뒤따를 수밖에. 인간은 참 못 말리는 존재입니다.

https://t.co/yHbboyD2VA

— Goodhyun 김국현 (@goodhyun) March 14, 2019

People’s online photos are being used without consent to train face recognition AI#technology #science #innovation #platform #education #future #news #industry #tech #information #solutions #development #software #trendshttps://t.co/B9cchejnPS

— Shameel Qureshi (@ShameelQureshi) March 14, 2019