I have joined Plainsight Technologies as CEO to do something radical: not steal your data.
Vision is our most powerful sense. We navigate the world, recognize faces, assess our surroundings, operate vehicles, and make split-second decisions, all based on how we process what we see.
Computer vision has already changed the world, and we are still at the beginning of the global adoption of AI, which lets us quickly and easily apply computer vision to various tasks and business situations.
Harvesting Your Data To Sell AI Models
Businesses face the same perils as consumers – it seems that every AI company wants your data. They want to train their models using whatever images and videos they can get and even block you from using software to help train their AI models – like when you use a CAPTCHA and have to pick out traffic lights. Training AI models using these sneaky methods has become the standard operating model for all AI providers – trick customers into giving away their precious data and brainpower so they can monetize it.
It’s not a single bad apple of a company stealing your data, either. Accusations have been extended against DropBox and GitHub. Zoom has since changed its stance toward data privacy (which is excellent!), but the exception proves the rule in the industry.
Giving AI companies your company’s data is bad for your business. Why should you help train models that they can sell to your competition? And in cases where the models would benefit society – identifying wildfires or improving public safety — why wouldn’t we want this data to be freely shared and enhanced by communities worldwide? Instead, this data is locked away and only benefits tech companies.
You should be able to reap these benefits for yourself.
Our Commitment To Protect Customer Data Privacy
We are doing this differently. Plainsight will not sell AI models trained on customers’ data without permission or compensation. Without stealing customer data, we can still build our business by licensing vision intelligence filters. We honor the privacy of our customers while still achieving high degrees of performance and accuracy.
We help customers collect video and image data, label it, train models over time, and consume it in various applications via vision intelligence filters. This method lets you fine-tune your models (without a data-science team) to your specific task without worrying that this valuable training intellectual property will enable your competitors in a few months.
I am excited to lead Plainsight Technologies forward as CEO. The company is in the very early days of broad computer vision adoption via Vision Intelligence Filters. And we already see positive early signals from customers that they like our approach. Every day (and this is not an exaggeration), I learn about a new computer vision problem we can solve. Being able to do this in a responsible, scalable, fair, and future-proofed way means that businesses can quickly gain the advantages of computer vision without the expense, worry, confusion, and stress typically associated with adopting AI.
Plainsight Technologies is here to help you see more business without stealing your data.
