""We're collecting data now and just realized that OKCupid must have a HUGE amount of awesome data for this," Clarifai founder and CEO Matthew Zeiler wrote in an email to OkCupid co-founder Maxwell Krohn, according to court documents reviewed by Reuters."
"The FTC also alleged that since 2014, Match Group and OkCupid deliberately concealed this behavior and attempted to obstruct its investigation."
"Though this incident appears to have taken place twelve years ago, the FTC did not open an investigation until 2019, when a New York Times article about Clarifai mentioned that the company had used images from OkCupid to build an AI tool that could estimate someone's age, sex, and race based on their face."
"While the FTC is not able to fine companies for this type of first-time offense, the agency declared that OkCupid and Match are "permanently prohibited from misrepresenting or assisting others in misrepresenting" the nature of their data collection and sharing."
Clarifai deleted 3 million photos obtained from OkCupid to train its facial recognition AI, along with any models trained on that data. The FTC's investigation revealed that Clarifai requested user-uploaded photos from OkCupid in 2014, violating OkCupid's privacy policies. Although the incident occurred years ago, the FTC opened an investigation in 2019 after media reports surfaced. The lawsuit was settled without admissions of wrongdoing, but OkCupid and Match Group are now prohibited from misrepresenting their data practices.
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