Got called out for using a facial recognition filter on my pet photos last week

I was at a coffee shop editing pictures of my dog when a stranger told me the app I used trains its AI on people's faces without consent, so I deleted the whole batch and switched to manual editing, has anyone else had that awkward moment where tech you thought was harmless turned out to have a dark side?

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the_ryan28d ago

Man, that's a bummer. A buddy of mine had this happen with a photo of his kid at a birthday party, some random person walked up and told him the cute cartoon filter he used was actually harvesting data for a megacorp's facial recognition database. He was pretty shook, ended up deleting the whole app and a bunch of edits he'd spent an afternoon on. Now he just uses the basic photo editor on his phone, no filters, no cloud nonsense. It's wild how something that seems totally innocent can have all this hidden stuff going on behind the curtain.

margaret_taylor4228d agoMost Upvoted

Crazy what you find out after the fact, right?

grant_foster7928d ago

Yeah "spent an afternoon on" edits that are probably gone forever, that stings. But honestly, maybe that random stranger did him a favor, now he knows exactly what he's giving up with those "free" apps.