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Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'

Clearview AI scraped 30 billion photos from social media to build its facial recognition database. US police have used the database nearly a million times, the company's CEO told the BBC. One digital ...
Artnet

‘A.I. Should Exclude Living Artists From Its Database,’ Says One Painter Whose Works Were Used to Fuel Image Generators

Text-to-image art generators fueled by artificial intelligence (A.I.) have spurred lively debates about the purported end of society’s need for trained visual artists. The technology has already ...
Forbes

Clearview AI—Controversial Facial Recognition Firm—Fined $33 Million For ‘Illegal Database’

Controversial U.S. facial recognition company Clearview AI, reportedly embraced U.S. government and law enforcement agencies, has been fined more than $30 million by the Netherlands’ data protection ...
SiliconANGLE

Real-time analytics database startup Imply raises $70M in Series C funding

Self-styled “analytics-in-motion” database startup Imply Inc. has money to spend after securing a hefty $70 million in a new round of funding. Bessemer Venture Partners led the Series C round, which ...