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The FTC article links to the federal complaint[0] which names the third-party data recipient as Clarifai, Inc.

"In September 2014, the CEO of Clarifai, Inc. e-mailed one of OkCupid’s founders requesting that Humor Rainbow give Clarifai, Inc. (i.e., the Data Recipient) access to large datasets of OkCupid photos."

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/OkCupid-MatchCo...



So, your dating photos were going to a government contractor involved with AI killer drone technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarifai#Military_work


> Their technology was used by Unilever, Ubisoft, BuzzFeed

And apparently also your deodorant, Assassin's Creed, and tabloid rags as well. That's what I call variety.


Killing singles near you!


Killing significant others to broaden the dating pool! Delivering value to existing users!


This is clearly the follow up to the dril tweet - you do not, in fact, have to hand it to them for figuring out how to monetize the enemy combatant guidelines


That’s must the reason why some people can’t get a partner /s


> The platform includes the ability to moderate content, perform visual search, visual similarity, and organize media collections. It has pre-built recognition models that can identify a specific set of concepts like food or travel, NSFW, and its general model which can identify a range of concepts including objects, ideas, and emotion.[18] It also has the ability to create custom models which can identify other arbitrary objects such as cars or breeds of dogs.[19] The 2018 Model 1.5 with machine-labeled datasets claims to recognize up to 11,000 concepts from object detection, as well as things like mood or theme.

sooo, why are they after some dating profile pics if the model was about “identifying and labeling pictures”? You can safely assume their new model will be (already) trained on your pictures to crosscheck you on other platforms or surveillance system, coupled with accurate positioning, you can guess the rest.




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