They steal more than 40,000 photos of women and men from Tinder
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Do you usually find your dates on Tinder? Well, your profile photos, those you use in this meat market, may be circulating on the Internet. And no, not for the blessing of potential suitors, but for the joy and learning of Artificial Intelligence machines. A robbery that has taken advantage of a back door of the dating application.
This is the fault of the developer Stuart Colianni, who has exploited this vulnerability.However, far from contenting himself with taking over the selfies and photographs of thousands of users, he has put them up for sale. To do this, it has taken advantage of the Kaggle platform, owned by Google, where artificial intelligence researchers have been able to use them for their facial recognition experiments.
Goodbye to privacy
Colianni claims to have worked with face databases in the past. However, it suffers from containing very small collections. Something that Tinder can solve thanks to the huge number of profiles and photos that flood this dating application. Of course, to do this you have to violate the privacy of all these users and take their photographs without any consent.
Although the files containing all of these photos have been removed from Kaggle, they still exist in the GitHub repository.Of course, always focused on the machines learning to recognize features and faces. In this way they train with the best photographs of those who are looking for a partner on the Internet. So that? Only the researchers and creators of these machines and artificial intelligence know this.
Tinder People
Information pack contains more than 40,000 photos of men and women Tinder users. It has been published under the name People of Tinder, although the curious thing is what is inside. And it is that in the middle The Next Web have noticed the code used to exploit the vulnerability. In it, constant references are made to the term “hoe”, something like “mujer de vida alegre” in Spanish. Something that throws part of the developer's facade to the ground. And it is he who is committed to the development of artificial intelligence with this theft of information.
