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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 pictures to on-line boards the place they discuss store. The images had been mundane, if typically 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 right down to mid-thigh.
The photographs weren’t taken by an individual, however by improvement variations of iRobot’s Roomba robotic vacuum, an organization now owned by Amazon. They had been then despatched to Scale AI, a startup that contracts employees around the globe to label knowledge used to coach synthetic intelligence.
In 2022, MIT Know-how Overview obtained 15 screenshots of those personal images, which had been posted to closed social media teams. The photographs converse to the rising observe of sharing probably delicate knowledge to coach algorithms. In addition they reveal an entire knowledge provide chain—and new factors the place private data may leak out—that few customers are even conscious of. Learn the complete story.
—Eileen Guo
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