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This Website Shows How Much Google’s AI Can Glean From Your Photos
A photo sharing startup founded by an ex-Google engineer found a clever way to turn Google’s tech against itself.
Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage. Mohandas, who taught himself programming and is based in Bengaluru, India, decided he wanted to develop an alternative service for storing and sharing photos that is open source and end-to-end encrypted. But the AI still makes a number of assumptions about Mohandas and his family, like that their faces are expressing “joint contentment” and the “parents are likely of South Asian descent, middle class.” It judges their clothing (“appropriate for sightseeing”) and notes that “the woman's watch displays a time as approximately 2 pm, which corroborates with the image metadata.”
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