Programmer admits to 'scraping' 40,000 photos from Tinder

While Tinder users have been analyzing profile pictures of potential dates, a programmer has been stealing them for artificial intelligence experiments focused on facial recognition. Some 40,000 photos were scraped from the dating app, all of users in the San Francisco Bay area, by a member of Kaggle – a platform focused on machine learning that was recently acquired by Google. The data set, named'People of Tinder', consisted of six downloadable zip files and each housed about 10,000 profiles pictures in each. Some 40,000 photos were scrapped from the dating app, all of users in the San Francisco Bay area, by a member of Kaggle. The plan was to use photos in artificial intelligence research focusing on facial recognition.