The facial recognition start-up doesn’t have the funds to settle a class-action lawsuit, so lawyers are proposing equity for those whose faces were scraped from the internet.
  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    This is perverse: giving everyone a financial interest in AI creates an ulterior motive to accept AI when they otherwise would not. This ruling is almost a form of manufactured consent.

    While it seems like an unusual legal remedy, there have been comparable situations, said Samuel Issacharoff, a New York University law professor. The 1998 settlement between tobacco companies and state attorneys general required the companies to pay billions of dollars over decades into a fund for health care costs.

    No it is fucking not comparable! Paying out equity and paying into a fund to cover future liability are entirely different!