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Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend

Getty Images | Aurich Lawson reader comments 118 with Use of facial recognition software led Detroit police to falsely arrest 32-year-old Porcha Woodruff for robbery and carjacking, reports The New York Times. Eight months pregnant, she was detained for 11 hours, questioned, and had her iPhone seized for evidence before being released. It’s the latest… Read More: Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend »

Report: OpenAI holding back GPT-4 image features on fears of privacy issues

Witthaya Prasongsin (Getty Images) reader comments 30 with OpenAI has been testing its multimodal version of GPT-4 with image-recognition support prior to a planned wide release. However, public access is being curtailed due to concerns about its ability to potentially recognize specific individuals, according to a New York Times report on Tuesday. When OpenAI announced… Read More: Report: OpenAI holding back GPT-4 image features on fears of… »

Iran to use facial recognition to identify women without hijabs

James Marshall/Getty Images reader comments 169 with 0 posters participating Share this story Last month, a young woman went to work at Sarzamineh Shadi, or Land of Happiness, an indoor amusement park east of Iran’s capital, Tehran. After a photo of her without a hijab circulated on social media, the amusement park was closed, according… Read More: Iran to use facial recognition to identify women without hijabs »

This site posted every face from Parler’s Capitol Hill insurrection videos

reader comments 187 with 92 posters participating Share this story When hackers exploited a bug in Parler to download all of the right-wing social media platform’s contents last week, they were surprised to find that many of the pictures and videos contained geolocation metadata revealing exactly how many of the site’s users had taken part… Read More: This site posted every face from Parler’s Capitol Hill insurrection… »