NBC Built a Tool That Shows If IBM Used Your Face to Train AI

Interactive feature is part of a report on the company's data use practices

NBC News has created a widget that will tell you whether IBM used photos from your Flickr account to train facial recognition artificial intelligence.

The interactive feature is part of a deep dive the network did on the widespread use of publicly available images to train algorithms without their subjects’ consent, a common practice in the artificial intelligence community with questionable privacy implications.

NBC News’ Olivia Solon reported that IBM entered this fraught territory in January when it released a

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