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Nearly 60,000 Color Photos Of the Early 20th Century Are Now Free To Use These would be perfect for your next Pinterest board, presentation, or even a big inspo board for your novel (if you’re creating one).The “Archives of the Planet,” is a compilation of nearly 60,000 photos, free to use.  Released by the Albert Kahn departmental museum in France, this was move is actually part of a project to ensure the preservation of the world’s visual history. The Archives were started in 1908 by Albert Khan, a French banker that wanted to get photographs of humans around the world. He decided to hire 12 photographers to visit 50 countries and compiled all the photos in this collection. Through this project, he hoped that it would result in “a sort of photographic inventory of the surface of the globe, occupied and fitted out by man, as it appeared at the beginning of the 20th century.”  The Archives have a total of 25,000 color photos of early 20th-century life and 34,000 other images. For those interested in getting these photos, you can download almost 80% of the collection in full resolution through the museum’s Image Portal. If you’d like high-resolution versions of any of the photographs, the establishment states that they will need to create a profile with the website before accessing them. Image credit: Archives of the Planet #archives #images #collection #France #ArchivesofthePlanet #AlbertKhan #museums 

100 Billion Facial Photos: Facial Recognition Company Clearview AI Aims to Identify Almost Every Human on EarthIs this venture too ambitious or is it just straight-up problematic? Regardless of the potential privacy risks, we can all admit that this company has given itself a high goal to achieve. In a December 2021 financial presentation for its investors, facial recognition company Clearview AI announced that it aims to collect 100 billion photos to identify every human on Earth.While this announcement seems just a motivator for investors to provide funding for the company, the presentation claimed that Clearview already has 10 billion images and is adding 1.5 billion images a month. How did the company get these images? Well, according to the Washington Post, it’s all thanks to social networks. "Clearview has built its database by taking images from social networks and other online sources without the consent of the websites or the people who were photographed. Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube have demanded the company stop taking photos from their sites and delete any that were previously taken. Clearview has argued its data collection is protected by the First Amendment," the Post detailed. Yikes. Image credit: Wikimedia commons #artificialintelligence #ai #facialrecognition #ClearviewAI #images #photo