Robot vacuum cleaner leaked personal photos on social media

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The robot vacuum cleaner in the bathroom and took pictures of a woman sitting on a toilet bowl which then ended up circulating on closed social media groups.

Believe it or not, a robot vacuum cleaner took pictures of a woman sitting on the toilet, with the images being shared on Facebook.

The iRobot Roomba robot vacuum cleaner entered the bathroom and took pictures of the woman, which later ended up being circulated on closed social media groups.

These images were collected by sophisticated cleaning robot models and sent to Scale AI, a software start-up with contract workers from around the world.

Their job is to categorize data that is then used to train artificial intelligence, in still-software-wise-bots.

This helps them more accurately map their home environment, avoid obstacles, understand the size of a room, and better adjust its cleaning pattern.

The images ended up being shared online on Facebook and Discord in 2020, MIT Technology Review reported Monday.

They were snapshots of photos inside homes from across Asia, Europe and North America.

“Photographs vary in type and content. The most distinctive image we saw was the series of video stills depicting the young woman in the toilet, with her face obscured in the main image but uncovered in the data from the camera roll below,” said experts working on the issue. .

iRobot said this version of the device was given to employees and contractors who had signed an agreement that their data, including videos, would be sent to the company for training purposes.

The company also said the robot vacuums had a bright green sticker that read “videoscoping in progress” and that it was the responsibility of those involved to “remove anything they deem sensitive from any area the robot is operating in, including children.”

iRobot CEO Colin Angle told MIT Technology Review that “iRobot is terminating its relationship with the service provider that leaked the images, is actively investigating the matter, and is taking steps to help prevent a similar leak from any service provider in the future”.

Both iRobot and Scale AI told MIT Technology Review that sharing the screenshots on social media violated their rules.

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