Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That on balancing privacy & security, engaging with controversy | E1100

Jason Calacanis engages with Hoan Ton-That on the controversial topic of facial recognition. They discuss Clearview AI's application, usage ethics, and potential misuse by police. The conversation also explores the company's reactions to media scrutiny, bias in facial recognition, and the balance between safety and privacy.

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Jason Calacanis

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Hoan Ton-That

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0:00	Jason intros today's episode by talking about the current issues we are facing & how facial recognition relates to them
3:34	Jason intros Hoan Ton-That & brings up the current moral issues society is facing regarding facial recognition
8:26	How do they charge police departments? Who gets to use their software & what is an example of how Clearview would be used?
12:41	How do they prevent misuse of the software by police officers?
18:21	LinkedIn Jobs - Get $50 off your first job post
20:09	Hoan on the reaction to the NYT piece on Clearview AI, Peter Thiel's impact on Clearview's notoriety
23:19	Bias in facial recognition
26:30	Hoan demos Clearview AI, fair use issues
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32:31	Crawling social media sites, fair use comparison with Google
37:12	What disrupts current facial recognition software & how Clearview's algorithm works
45:31	Is Clearview competing against Palantir? Balancing safety with privacy, thoughts on real-time surveillance
52:38	Increasing efficiency for detectives
55:52	Can Clearview be tricked & how are they navigating cities that ban facial recognition?
1:05:34	Leaning into controversy as a founder, benefits of making yourself available to media & how they audit employees using their software, best use cases of Clearview so far

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