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iRobot Roomba J7 R&D Images Reportedly Appeared in Private Online Groups After Data Labeling
- Occurred
- Jun 10, 2020
- Published
- Dec 19, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Images reportedly captured in 2020 by development versions of iRobot's Roomba J7 robot vacuum during an AI training data project were sent to Scale AI for labeling and later appeared in private Facebook, Discord, and other online groups. Reporting described some images as showing sensitive household scenes.
Developers
- iRobot
- Scale AI
Deployers
- iRobot
Harmed parties
- Privacy
- Project IO participants
- People captured in Roomba training images
- Minors captured in Roomba training images
- Minors
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Unauthorized sharing of private images collected by a robot vacuum breaches user consent and data agreements.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8