UW Researchers' Plan to Use Teacher Body Cameras for AI Training Raises Opt-Out Concerns
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Summary
University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear body cameras to record first-person footage of classrooms, including children, to train AI models. The program was designed as opt-out rather than opt-in, meaning parents had to actively take steps to prevent their children's recordings from being used for AI training. The details were obtained by 404 Media from documents given to parents.
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the program was presented as opt-out, rather than opt-in, meaning that parents had to take steps to prevent recordings of their children being processed by AI
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