AI facial recognition company Clarifai says it has deleted the three million user photos dating app OKCupid shared with it without users’ consent. Earlier this month, Match Group, which owns platforms including Tinder, OkCupid, and Match.com, agreed to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit alleging that it improperly shared millions of users’ personal data, including photos used to train facial recognition technology, without permission. According to the FTC, after Clarifai contacted one of OkCupid’s founders in 2014, the dating app provided access to nearly three million user photos, along with demographic and location data. At the time, Clarifai was developing image recognition systems that rely on large datasets to train algorithms, a practice that has become widespread but has also raised concerns about consent and transparency in the AI industry. The FTC alleged that sharing the data violated OkCupid’s own privacy policy because users were not given an option to opt out.…