Ukraine harnesses Clearview AI to uncover assailants and identify the fallen

Ukraine is using Clearview AI's facial recognition software to uncover Russian assailants and identify Ukrainians who've sadly lost their lives in the conflict. The company's chief executive, Hoan Ton-That, told Reuters that Ukraine's defence ministry began using the software on Saturday. Clearview AI's facial recognition system is controversial but indisputably powerful--using billions of images scraped from the web to identify just about anyone. Ton-That says that Clearview has more than two billion images from Russian social media service VKontakte alone. Reuters says that Ton-That sent a letter to Ukrainian authorities offering Clearview AI's assistance.