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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 photos to on-line boards the place they speak store. The pictures have been mundane, if typically 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 growth 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 world wide to label knowledge used to coach synthetic intelligence.
In 2022, MIT Know-how Overview obtained 15 screenshots of those personal pictures, which had been posted to closed social media teams. The pictures communicate to the rising apply of sharing probably delicate knowledge to coach algorithms. Additionally they reveal an entire knowledge provide chain—and new factors the place private data might leak out—that few customers are even conscious of. Learn the complete story.
—Eileen Guo
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