Microsoft takes down MS Celeb facial recognition database, 10 million+ pics of ~100,000 faces, maybe yours, scraped under Creative Commons

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I wonder how they assembled the database of face photos? Did they use a Mechanical Turk, or were they using facial recognition to recognise faces to train facial recognition? If the latter, how many of those photos will be of actual people, rather than paintings, sculptures, CGI and action figures.

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