NYT’s Kashmir Hill Says Facial Recognition, AI Will End Privacy If We Let It

Pairing facial recognition with AI is a dream come true for legislation enforcement, nevertheless it may be a nightmare for privateness as we all know it — which is why an creator says it could be time to pump the brakes on the expertise.

Kashmir Hill, a New York Times tech reporter, joined us Thursday on “TMZ Live” to inform us in regards to the facial recognition databases lurking within the shadows, how the expertise works and what its implications are for the long run.

Google and Facebook first developed facial recognition tech in early 2017, however Silicon Valley’s main gamers did not dare unleash it on the general public … although Kashmir says one other firm, Clearview AI, picked up the baton and pushed the boundaries.

Kashmir wrote a e book in regards to the subject, “Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest,” and she or he says Clearview AI’s database scraped the web for photographs of human faces — with out consent — amassing 30 billion pictures and counting. Those numbers make it doubtless your face is already of their database.

There are some sensible, and good, makes use of proper now — the tech is getting used to unravel crimes, and it was lately used to determine of us who stormed the Capitol throughout the Jan. 6 rebellion.

However, Kashmir paints an image of a dystopian future the place the tech utterly strips away privateness for everybody … which, for instance, might make for some embarrassing journeys to the pharmacy.