In January, IBM published a research study dubbed ‘Diversity in Faces‘ to explore whether AI-based systems developed biases against people based on their appearance. The company used a dataset consisting of nearly a million pictures of people’s faces from photo-hosting site Flickr.

However, it failed to notify those Flickr users that it was using their pictures to train an AI – and you could be one of them. NBC, which broke the story, has developed a tool to check if IBM has used your Flickr photos. Here’s how it works: Open this link in your browser, and scroll down until you see the…

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