17 Computer Vision News Computer Vision News WEIR AI with Tal Hassner Tal spent much of his tech career working on face recognition products at AWS and Facebook, particularly face recognition in the wild. Around 2020 there started to be a worldwide increase in enforcement of privacy regulations, which is a good thing per se, but it led to the eventual shutdown and stepping away from face recognition products. It became touchy and very expensive. At some point Big Tech decided, and we can understand why, to take a step back. That left a gap, because there are very important and sensitive use cases, that would be very difficult to solve without having a way to recognize people. Tal tells us of real-life examples, like when where your name, your image or your likeness is being misused. Someone's taking your face and doing something with it that is harmful to you, including spreading misinformation, harassment and ransoming you.
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