#AI#Datasets#FacialRecognition#ML#CC#CreativeCommons#Flickr#Nvidi: "Flickr Faces High-Quality (FFHQ) is a dataset of Flickr face photos originally created for face generation research by NVIDIA in 2019. It includes 70,000 total face images from 67,646 unique Flickr photos. Since its release the dataset has become of the most widely used face datasets for a wide variety of research and commercial applications ranging from face recognition to oral region gender recognition. The images in FFHQ were taken from Flickr users without explicit consent and were selected because they contained high quality face images with a permission Creative Commons license. Many of the images contain infants and children and over 10% of the dataset no longer exists on the original source yet NVIDIA, a $1T company, continues to use and benefit from the 70,000 face images taken on Flickr.com to develop commercial AI technologies.
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Even though the main dataset and its derivatives mention the Creative Commons licenses associated with the media, of which many require attribution, no human readable attribution was provided for any photo in any dataset. Attribution is only provided in a 256MB JSON file that could not be opened on a standard laptop computer using Sublime text editor, let alone parsed to understand author attribution. This may amount to a large-scale breach of the Creative Commons attribution requirement. For further reading on the exploitation of Creative Commons licensing scheme, read "Creative Commons and The Face Recognition Problem". To further complicate the issue, it may not be possible at all to use non-consensual face images for AI/ML when attribution is required because including the subject or author name can force the face photo to become PII (personally identifiable information), a protected class of data."
