Clearview AI (previously) is a grifty facial recognition company that sells untested, secretive tools to police departments, claiming that they can identify people from security camera footage by matching the pictures those scraped from big social media sites.
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Quantifying the influence of 4chan’s alt-right trolls on normies’ discourse
In a proceedings paper presented at a Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence social media conference, a team of British, Italian, and Cypriot academics who worked with a Telefonica researcher presented their work analyzing 8,000,000 comments from 4chan’s “politically incorrect” (AKA /pol/) boards, a hive of alt-right racism and hate.
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