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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 photographs to on-line boards the place they discuss 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 all the way down to mid-thigh.
The pictures weren’t taken by an individual, however by improvement 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 employees around the globe to label knowledge used to coach synthetic intelligence.
In 2022, MIT Expertise Evaluate obtained 15 screenshots of those non-public pictures, which had been posted to closed social media teams. The pictures communicate to the rising follow 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 shoppers are even conscious of. Learn the total story.
—Eileen Guo
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