—Anthony Albanese, Australia’s prime minister, explains the rationale behind his authorities’s plans to limit social media entry for youngsters and youngsters, the Monetary Occasions studies.
The massive story
A Roomba recorded a girl on the bathroom. How did screenshots find yourself on Fb?
December 2022
Within the fall of 2020, gig employees in Venezuela posted a collection of photographs to on-line boards the place they discuss store. The photographs have 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 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 employees around the globe to label knowledge used to coach synthetic intelligence.
Earlier this yr, MIT Expertise Assessment obtained 15 screenshots of those personal photographs, which had been posted to closed social media teams. The photographs converse to the rising apply of sharing doubtlessly delicate knowledge to coach algorithms. Additionally they reveal a complete knowledge provide chain—and new factors the place private info might leak out—that few shoppers are even conscious of. Learn the complete story.
—Eileen Guo
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