It's The Data, Stupid! Why AI Might Get It Wrong.

In the last few weeks there were a lot of discussions around clearview.ai. The company that scrapes image data from Facebook and other social sites and uses facial recognition to identify people. As the New York Times reported they claim that "the app helped identify [...] a person [..] whose face appeared in the mirror of someone else's gym photo". Much of the public outrage was about the privacy aspect. Little however was about the fact that those algorithms might just be wrong.