Clearview AI has developed an experimental AI tool that could extend a facial recognition search into broader automated research on a person’s online identity, background, and associates.
The prototype, called InquiryIQ, can conduct web and image searches, browse webpages, and run Clearview facial recognition on photographs it encounters.
Clearview has increasingly positioned facial recognition not merely to identify an unknown person, but as a starting point for gathering information and mapping possible relationships around that person.
However, it shows that using facial recognition to move from identification to personal information and relationships has long been part of Clearview’s technical conception.
The company says it documents each facial recognition search, including the probe image, the search’s purpose, and the user’s identity.