>The New York Times reported in 2020 that Clearview AI had harvested billions of social media images without users’ consent.
You need users' consent to take public pictures from the internet? That's bonkers.
You need users' consent to take public pictures from the internet? That's bonkers.
Damn near everything on the internet, pictures, text, all of it, is copyrighted information. You can only ever use it in ways that you are licensed to, which in the absence of an actual license, is essentially looking at it on a website.