2024-06-15
AI illegally scraped everyone's photos on the internet. Lost lawsuit, claims they can't pay the settlement. Instead, they are offering equity in their company from those they harmed. So victims will have an interest in seeing them financially succeed in stealing more content. Wtf
New York Times
Filing: Clearview AI proposes settling a class action lawsuit by collectively giving a 23% stake, worth ~$52M, to Americans whose faces are in its database
https://arstechnica.com/... h/t @Nonya_Bidniss Evan Greer / @evangreer@mastodon.online : I spoke with the NYT about why giving people harmed a stake in Clearview AI is not a solut...
2024-06-14
AI illegally scraped everyone's photos on the internet. Lost lawsuit, claims they can't pay the settlement. Instead, they are offering equity in their company from those they harmed. So victims will have an interest in seeing them financially succeed in stealing more content. Wtf
New York Times
Filing: Clearview AI proposes settling a class action lawsuit by collectively giving a 23% stake, worth ~$52M, to Americans whose faces are in its database
The facial recognition start-up doesn't have the funds to settle a class-action lawsuit, so lawyers are proposing equity for those whose faces were scraped from the internet.