Unauthorized Use of Transgender YouTube Videos in Facial Recognition Research: A Breach of Trust
September 13, 2013
An incident involving facial recognition researchers who utilized YouTube videos of transgender individuals without consent for their study, raising serious concerns about data privacy and ethical practices. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help establish guardrails for responsible AI and promote safe and secure AI research? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- university-of-north-carolina-wilmington, karl-ricanek, gayathri-mahalingam
- Alleged developer
- university-of-north-carolina-wilmington, karl-ricanek, gayathri-mahalingam
- Alleged harmed parties
- transgender-youtubers, transgender-people
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/409
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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