Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
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Re: Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
#2You could also see this if you viewed source when it was fully working, of course. And occasionally before images loaded in if you were on a slow connection. I don't think it's any great secret, but still interesting to see.
Re: Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
#3You could also see this if you viewed source when it was fully working, of course. And occasionally before images loaded in if you were on a slow connection. I don't think it's any great secret, but still interesting to see.
I was thinking the same thing. I've noticed this multiple times in the past, but I guess alt-tags are too archaic for Average Joe.
Re: Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
#4This is nothing new, I've noticed that several months ago and talked about that with one of my security friends and he confirmed that Facebook is tagging pictures at least since 2016.
Re: Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
#5I know for sure that this technology improves life of visual impaired persons as special software will read respective text.
Re: Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
#6Looks like alt tags for accessibility purposes. Seems like a win win for all users. Easier to find photos and the ability for visually impaired users to get context on what their friends are sharing
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#7Not only is this nothing new as other commenters have observed, these tags have been used by screen readers and other accessibility services for awhile. While we can talk all we want about Facebook using their all seeing eyes for evil (which I agree they overstep a lot of boundaries), these tags are very useful for people who may require them and should not be scrutinized as an invasion of privacy.
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#8This stuff is in the HTML, you can see it with web inspector, or I think just by hovering your mouse over the image because that looks like it's in the title attribute for the image. This isn't it like something new was exposed inadvertently. I'm surprised The Verge wrote an article about this.
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#9Dumb article. It's the alt text.
Re: Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
#10This stuff is in the HTML, you can see it with web inspector, or I think just by hovering your mouse over the image because that looks like it's in the title attribute for the image. This isn't it like something new was exposed inadvertently. I'm surprised The Verge wrote an article about this.
I think it's less about "look at these [creepy] things" and more about "hey guys, you saw all this text when Facebook broke, this is what it is." At least, that's how a lot of my non-tech friends seem to be taking it.