General Intelligence

A.I.’s Most Important Dataset Gets a Privacy Overhaul, a Decade Too Late

The authors of the image dataset that changed the world have made one long-overdue tweak

Dave Gershgorn
OneZero
Published in
3 min readMar 19, 2021

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Photo illustration source: John M. Lund Photography Inc.

ImageNet is arguably the most important dataset in recent A.I. history. It’s a collection of millions of images that were compiled in…

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Dave Gershgorn
OneZero

Senior Writer at OneZero covering surveillance, facial recognition, DIY tech, and artificial intelligence. Previously: Qz, PopSci, and NYTimes.