This week in creepy headlines: 404 Media’s Joseph Cox discovered that a Google contractor, Telus, has offered parents $50 to upload videos of their children’s faces, apparently for use as machine learning training data.
According to a description of the project Telus posted online, the data collected from the videos would include eyelid shape and skin tone
https://www.404media.co/google-telus-pays-50-to-scan-childrens-eyelid-shape-and-skin-tone/
@matuzalem it's deffo aiming at low income families with that price
families who need the money more will not really think of the bigger picture
@ecksmc just gross