https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2019/10/08/google-exploited-homeless-black-people-to-develop-the-pixel-4s-facial-recognition-ai/

The US city of Atlanta, Georgia alleged last week that contractors working on behalf of Google used confusing, aggressive tactics to exploit black people in order to obtain their likeness for facial recognition AI research. Now Google‘s responded, saying the contractors were conducting work related to the Pixel 4’s face unlock feature, and that it’s suspended the program.

The research in question was conducted by temporary workers for Randstad, a company under contract with Google. The objective was to get people with darker skin tones to agree to record videos of themselves, on the temps’ devices, so that their image and likeness could be sequenced for an AI training database.