An OKCupid user sued Clarifai in Delaware federal court, alleging that the artificial intelligence company violated Illinois privacy laws when it used the facial geometry of thousands of OKCupid users to train its facial recognition algorithms.
Jordan Stein claims in a would-be class action that Clarifai used and profited from her OKCupid photos without her knowledge or consent, in violation of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act.
The company extracts face templates from the dating site images, trains an algorithm to reliably scan and collect a template of any given face, then sells the technology around the United States, the complaint ...
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