Ben Zhao
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Clearview AI is funded how? It was a private company. I think it's still private now. It's gone through some ups and downs. Since the New York Times article, they've had to change their revenue stream. They no longer take third-party customers. Now they only work with government and law enforcement.
Clearview AI is funded how? It was a private company. I think it's still private now. It's gone through some ups and downs. Since the New York Times article, they've had to change their revenue stream. They no longer take third-party customers. Now they only work with government and law enforcement.
Clearview AI is funded how? It was a private company. I think it's still private now. It's gone through some ups and downs. Since the New York Times article, they've had to change their revenue stream. They no longer take third-party customers. Now they only work with government and law enforcement.
Fox was designed as a research paper, an algorithm, but we did produce a little app. I think it went over a million downloads. We stopped keeping track of it, but we still have a mailing list, and that mailing list is actually how some artists reach out.
Fox was designed as a research paper, an algorithm, but we did produce a little app. I think it went over a million downloads. We stopped keeping track of it, but we still have a mailing list, and that mailing list is actually how some artists reach out.
Fox was designed as a research paper, an algorithm, but we did produce a little app. I think it went over a million downloads. We stopped keeping track of it, but we still have a mailing list, and that mailing list is actually how some artists reach out.
These companies will go out and they'll run scrapers, little tools that go online and basically suck up any semblance of imagery, especially high quality imagery from online websites.
These companies will go out and they'll run scrapers, little tools that go online and basically suck up any semblance of imagery, especially high quality imagery from online websites.
These companies will go out and they'll run scrapers, little tools that go online and basically suck up any semblance of imagery, especially high quality imagery from online websites.
It would download those images and run them through an image classifier to generate some set of labels and then take that pair of images and their labels and then feed that into the pipeline to some text image model.
It would download those images and run them through an image classifier to generate some set of labels and then take that pair of images and their labels and then feed that into the pipeline to some text image model.
It would download those images and run them through an image classifier to generate some set of labels and then take that pair of images and their labels and then feed that into the pipeline to some text image model.
How meaningful is that? Well, opting out assumes a lot of things. It assumes benign acquiescence from the technology makers. Benign acquiescence, meaning they have to actually do what they say they're going to do? Yeah, exactly. Opting out is toothless because you can't prove it in the machine learning business.
How meaningful is that? Well, opting out assumes a lot of things. It assumes benign acquiescence from the technology makers. Benign acquiescence, meaning they have to actually do what they say they're going to do? Yeah, exactly. Opting out is toothless because you can't prove it in the machine learning business.
How meaningful is that? Well, opting out assumes a lot of things. It assumes benign acquiescence from the technology makers. Benign acquiescence, meaning they have to actually do what they say they're going to do? Yeah, exactly. Opting out is toothless because you can't prove it in the machine learning business.
Even if someone completely went against their word and said, okay, here's my opt-out list, and then immediately train on all their content, you just lack the technology to prove it. And so what's to stop someone from basically going back on their word when we're talking about billions of dollars at stake? Really, you're hoping and praying someone's being nice to you.
Even if someone completely went against their word and said, okay, here's my opt-out list, and then immediately train on all their content, you just lack the technology to prove it. And so what's to stop someone from basically going back on their word when we're talking about billions of dollars at stake? Really, you're hoping and praying someone's being nice to you.
Even if someone completely went against their word and said, okay, here's my opt-out list, and then immediately train on all their content, you just lack the technology to prove it. And so what's to stop someone from basically going back on their word when we're talking about billions of dollars at stake? Really, you're hoping and praying someone's being nice to you.
A big part of their misuse is when they assume the identity of others. So this idea of right of publicity and the idea that we own our faces, our voices, our identity, our skills and work product, that is very much a core of how we define ourselves. For artists, it's the fact that they take decades to hone their skill and to become known for a particular style.
A big part of their misuse is when they assume the identity of others. So this idea of right of publicity and the idea that we own our faces, our voices, our identity, our skills and work product, that is very much a core of how we define ourselves. For artists, it's the fact that they take decades to hone their skill and to become known for a particular style.